Pattern Recognition · Sonic Youth

179 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 13-15 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
PATTERN RECOGNITION · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 42, 83, 85 and 5 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 26 sections: 120 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-80.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
PART U
PART U
CHORUS 4
PART E
14 groovesAEOCU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pattern Recognition?

148 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 Pattern Recognition hard to play on drums?

59 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pattern Recognition?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 42, 83, 85 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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