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Sirens · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 15 OF 59
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-9)
45 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sirens on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-37, hi-hat through bars 38-63, ride through bars 64-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Sirens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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