The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 · Porcupine Tree

356 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
356
LENGTH
11:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 100-103, 108-111 and 116-120, and 10 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE SKY MOVES SIDEWAYS PHASE 1 · BARS 108-109
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 107, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

356 bars across 38 sections: 252 keep time, 10 are fills, 15 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-156.

CHORUS
PART S5
PART K
21 groovesHJKS5U+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1?

120 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 The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 hard to play on drums?

60 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

356 bars, about 11:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 107, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 356 BARS ANALYSED
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