Please Open Up Your Ports Please · Blooming Mechanica

53 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 1:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
PLEASE OPEN UP YOUR PORTS PLEASE · BAR 39
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 14 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 7 sections: 25 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-46.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAXPKT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Please Open Up Your Ports Please?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Please Open Up Your Ports Please hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Please Open Up Your Ports Please?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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