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The Package · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove E
114 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART P
PART H
OUTRO
13 groovesCHFAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Package on drums

237 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 7:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 2-130, silence through bars 131-138, hi-hat through bars 139-150, silence through bars 151-153, hi-hat through bars 154-186 and toms through bars 187-188, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-89 and 202-209 -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxx-x-----x---|------x-----x---|
BD |x---x-----x-----|--x-x-----x-----|
The Package -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 185 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 112-146 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 133-140 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 137-151 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 153-171 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Break 6 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Package?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Package hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Package?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 185 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED