Last Kiss by Pearl Jam · Pearl Jam

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-88 -- 96.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LAST KISS BY PEARL JAM · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars: 86 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-88.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Kiss by Pearl Jam?

110 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 Last Kiss by Pearl Jam hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Last Kiss by Pearl Jam?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

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