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Trains · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 11 OF 36
Groove J
36 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART P, PART N
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trains on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-60, silence through bars 61-101 and ride through bars 102-124.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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