Drown With Me · Porcupine Tree

160 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 187 BPM, 5:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 16 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 187 BPM
DROWN WITH ME · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 70 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-27.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
PART D
PART C
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS10DCES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drown With Me?

187 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drown With Me hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Drown With Me?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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