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Even Flow · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
8-bar fill at bar 21
63 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNHBAEAQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Even Flow on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-28, ride through bars 29-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, ride through bars 59-75, hi-hat through bars 76-104 and ride through bars 105-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 59-65, and 7 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
RD |--g-x---x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Even Flow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- N, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Even Flow?

105 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 Even Flow hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Even Flow?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED