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EXERCISE 4 OF 114
Groove BH -- Part BH (a two-bar phrase)
24 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 114 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BH
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Portals on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-36, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.
CC |x-------x---x-----|
SD |--------x---------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-----|
Portals -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BH -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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