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What Happens Now? · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 22 OF 49
Groove P
103 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Happens Now? on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57, snare through bars 58-77, ride through bars 78-94 and silence through bars 95-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------gggggggg--------x-x---x-|
BD |X---------------X---------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
What Happens Now? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W (a two-bar phrase), E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part S5 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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