Corduroy · Pearl Jam

143 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-43 and 97-105, and 1 more place -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
CORDUROY · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 35, 39, 53, 73 and 2 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 96 keep time, 8 are fills, 15 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-143.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMJHES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Corduroy?

132 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 Corduroy hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Corduroy?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 35, 39, 53, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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