Portals · Haken

160 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
PORTALS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 41 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 47 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-53.

CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART P
PART AQ
CHORUS 2
PART BH
PART BP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGPBQBHBU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Portals?

101 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 Portals hard to play on drums?

74 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?

160 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Portals?

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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