Porch · Pearl Jam

115 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-44, 81-87 and 93-95, and 4 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 129 BPM
PORCH · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 22 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-65.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKODIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Porch?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Porch hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Porch?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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