Dissident · Pearl Jam

64 bars, 3:25, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 17, and 6 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
DISSIDENT · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 34 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-31.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAIEPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dissident?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dissident hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 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, 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 Dissident?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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