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.

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

TEMPO

163 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

222

LENGTH

7:10

DIFFICULTY

67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------------------x-----------x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.