Porcelain Hearts And Hammers For Teeth · The Bled

187 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-13, and 8 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
PORCELAIN HEARTS AND HAMMERS FOR TEETH · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 40, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 32 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 89-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 23 sections: 111 keep time, 40 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-65.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
18 groovesJAAZAJD+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Porcelain Hearts And Hammers For Teeth?

123 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 Porcelain Hearts And Hammers For Teeth hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Porcelain Hearts And Hammers For Teeth?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 40, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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