Rearviewmirror · Pearl Jam

181 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-46 and 73-79, and 7 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
REARVIEWMIRROR · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 47, 52, 60, 72, 87 and 8 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 10 sections: 150 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBKOM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rearviewmirror?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rearviewmirror hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rearviewmirror?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 47, 52, 60, 72, 87 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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