Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans · Smashing Pumpkins

160 bars, 11:49, at 54 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
54 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
11:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 37, and 12 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 54 BPM
PORCELINA OF THE VAST OCEANS · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 32, 38, 59, 67, 73 and 11 more.

LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 16 sections: 114 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-56.

PART F
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHROAEL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans?

54 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 11:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 32, 38, 59, 67, 73 and 11 more.

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