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Garden · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 25 OF 44
5-bar fill at bar 54
80 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
PART R
PART G
OUTRO
10 groovesCMGAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Garden on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, ride through bars 49-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69 and silence through bars 70-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 29-31 and 33-35 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 51, 54, 55 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-97 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-53 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 72-85 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Garden?

78 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 Garden hard to play on drums?

64 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Garden?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 51, 54, 55 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED