My Front Porch Looking In · Lonestar

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20 and 38-44 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
MY FRONT PORCH LOOKING IN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 11, 21, 25, 31, 33 and 20 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 45-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 45 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART J
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFJAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Front Porch Looking In?

103 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 My Front Porch Looking In hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 My Front Porch Looking In?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 11, 21, 25, 31, 33 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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