What Happens Now? · Porcupine Tree

163 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 10 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WHAT HAPPENS NOW? · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 61, 65, 68, 69, 77, 83 and 12 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 7 sections: 125 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-45.

CHORUS
PART E
PART N
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCYEABN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Happens Now??

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 What Happens Now? hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 What Happens Now??

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 61, 65, 68, 69, 77, 83 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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