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Pornographie · AqME

EXERCISE 14 OF 45
Groove J -- Part J
56 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBNGJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pornographie on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 18-20 and 22-25, and 6 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x----xx-x-------|
Pornographie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 41, 45, 49 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase), G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-76 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-75 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pornographie?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pornographie hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Pornographie?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 41, 45, 49 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED