Recognize You · Porch Light

81 bars, 4:19, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 17, and 8 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
RECOGNIZE YOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 48, 52, 68 and 4 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-35.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesFCKAS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Recognize You?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Recognize You hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Recognize You?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 48, 52, 68 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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