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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

417

LENGTH

20:51

DIFFICULTY

40/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-97, ride through bars 98-201, kick and crashes through bars 202-217, hi-hat through bars 218-305 and kick and crashes through bars 306-307, and 2 more changes after that.

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.

    119
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.