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Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans · Smashing Pumpkins

Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans · Smashing Pumpkins
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EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
54 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
11:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-17, ride through bars 18-26, snare through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-32, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27                                               28
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------x-----------------x-----------------x-----|------------x-----------------------------------|
SD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------x--x--------x-----------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----------------x-----|------------x-----------x-----x-----------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-109 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-82 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED