Open Car · Porcupine Tree

134 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-68, 70-75 and 115-118, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
OPEN CAR · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 26, 38, 42, 46, 54 and 8 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-85.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCTAAS1M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Car?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Open Car hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Open Car?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 26, 38, 42, 46, 54 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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