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Drown With Me · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Fill at bar 48, 56, 64 and 3 more (a small one)
46 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drown With Me on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-105 and silence through bars 106-160.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x---x-x-x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-----------x-|
Drown With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 32-59 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-62 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-98 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-94 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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