Porcelain · Moby

169 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-79, 81-103 and 105-135, and 1 more place -- 94.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 183 BPM
PORCELAIN · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 9 sections: 147 keep time and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-79.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDS8BS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Porcelain?

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

Is Porcelain hard to play on drums?

58 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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