Portrait of Pieces · Numenorean

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PORTRAIT OF PIECES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 50 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 32-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 52-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 9 sections: 90 keep time, 56 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-27.

CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART S5
PART Y
OUTRO
9 groovesAYSAQN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Portrait of Pieces?

90 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 Portrait of Pieces hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Portrait of Pieces?

16 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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