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My Front Porch Looking In · Lonestar

EXERCISE 40 OF 47
2-bar fill at bar 73
70 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Front Porch Looking In on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-52, ride through bars 53-65, hi-hat through bars 66-74 and snare through bars 75-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
My Front Porch Looking In -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-62 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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