Fear Of A Blank Planet · Porcupine Tree

222 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 7:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-20 and 22-23, and 15 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
FEAR OF A BLANK PLANET · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80 and 8 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

222 bars across 15 sections: 124 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-119.

CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S9
PART AU
BREAK
11 groovesHSS15AUS9+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fear Of A Blank Planet?

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

Is Fear Of A Blank Planet hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Fear Of A Blank Planet?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED
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