Shesmovedon · Porcupine Tree

90 bars, 5:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-9 and 11-19, and 5 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SHESMOVEDON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 33, 38, 61, 74, 77 and 2 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S5
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAES5ACO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shesmovedon?

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

Is Shesmovedon hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Shesmovedon?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 33, 38, 61, 74, 77 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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