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The Perfect Crime · Zebrahead

The Perfect Crime · Zebrahead
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove N -- Part N
0 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Q
PART H
PART S14
PART X
PART N
OUTRO
13 groovesDHQS14N+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Perfect Crime on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36 and snare through bars 37-58, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
The Perfect Crime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- N, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-25 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-24 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-50 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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