The Perfect Crime · Zebrahead

164 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-41, 43 and 49, and 15 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
THE PERFECT CRIME · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 24, 44 and 14 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-85.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Q
PART H
PART S14
PART X
OUTRO
13 groovesDHQS14N+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Perfect Crime?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Perfect Crime hard to play on drums?

58 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Perfect Crime?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 24, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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