Arriving Somewhere But Not Here · Porcupine Tree

417 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 20:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
417
LENGTH
20:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 118-120, 122-127 and 130-132, and 36 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ARRIVING SOMEWHERE BUT NOT HERE · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 201, 233, 281, 289, 304, 305 and 1 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 201 · LANDS ON BAR 202
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 233 · LANDS ON BAR 234 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 281 · LANDS ON BAR 282
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 304-305 · LANDS ON BAR 306 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

417 bars across 10 sections: 392 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-119.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCKIT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arriving Somewhere But Not Here?

80 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 Arriving Somewhere But Not Here hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

417 bars, about 20:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 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 Arriving Somewhere But Not Here?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 201, 233, 281, 289, 304, 305 and 1 more.

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