Last Kiss · Pearl Jam

88 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 12-14 and 16-17, and 15 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
LAST KISS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 33, 43, 55, 65, 75 and 1 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Kiss?

112 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 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 33, 43, 55, 65, 75 and 1 more.

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