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Rearviewmirror · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 13 OF 38
Fill at bar 47, 87, 131 and 4 more (a small one)
139 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rearviewmirror on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------x-----|
RD |--x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Rearviewmirror -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-61 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-163 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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