Sirens · Pearl Jam

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 10 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
SIRENS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 46 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 52 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-21.

PART A
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART X
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPXGLQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sirens?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sirens hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sirens?

13 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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