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The Perfect Kiss · New Order

EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Groove J -- Part J
138 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
PART J
OUTRO
VERSE 4
7 groovesEIS9HJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Perfect Kiss on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-107, silence through bars 108-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-16, 18-29 and 31-37, and 10 more places -- 74.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 157.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Verse 3 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Perfect Kiss?

130 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 Perfect Kiss hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. 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 Kiss?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED