PEARL JAM · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Given To Fly

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 22, and 4 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
GIVEN TO FLY · BAR 5

It is played on high tom, mid tom and floor tom, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 7 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 45 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 75 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 75, 88 and 100 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Given To Fly use?

A one-bar groove on high tom, mid tom and floor tom, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-11, 13-19, 22 and 47-51, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Given To Fly hard?

7 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED