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Porch · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 2 OF 38
Groove O -- Part O
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0 / 38 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Porch on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29 and ride through bars 30-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------x-------------------|
RD |x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
Porch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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