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Open Car · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 16 OF 44
Groove N -- Part N
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Car on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-46, ride through bars 47-64, hi-hat through bars 65-96, ride through bars 97-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-134.

The beat

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.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Open Car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- T, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-90 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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