Portal · PSIKOLERA

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-32, 37-40 and 45-48, and 2 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
PORTAL · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 15 sections: 65 keep time, 9 are fills, 11 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-102.

PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART O
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQOAGEM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Portal?

92 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 Portal hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Portal?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 17, 18, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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