Trains · Porcupine Tree

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 12, and 5 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TRAINS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 45, 47, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 12 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 105-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 118-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-33.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART N
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesS9EKNP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trains?

87 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 Trains hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Trains?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 45, 47, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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