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Porcelain · Moby

EXERCISE 8 OF 11
Join Chorus to Break (bars 78-80)
149 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDS8BS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Porcelain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-135 and silence through bars 136-169.

The beat

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.

    17                       18
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |------o-----------------|------------------------|
SD |x---x-x-----x---x-x---x-|x-----x---x-x---x-x---x-|
FT |----------x-------------|------------------------|
BD |x---------x-----------x-|----x-x-----------------|
HF |------------x-----------|------------------------|
Porcelain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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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