Thomas · A Perfect Circle

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62 and 64, and 3 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
THOMAS · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 10 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 28 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAMFS1B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thomas?

86 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 Thomas hard to play on drums?

54 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Thomas?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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