Threads · Portishead

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 25-32 -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
THREADS · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 22 and 23.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 4 sections: 32 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Threads?

76 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 Threads hard to play on drums?

47 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Threads?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 22 and 23.

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