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The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART S5
PART J
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART J
PART K
PART J
21 groovesHJKS5U+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 6
JOIN · 28
LINK · 8
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
356
LENGTH
11:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-67, silence through bars 68-99, hi-hat through bars 100-183, silence through bars 184-187 and hi-hat through bars 188-356.

The beat

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.

    108              109
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-x---|--------x-x-x---|
BD |x-------------x-|x-----x---------|
The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-111 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 133-164 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 162-184 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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