Why Go · Pearl Jam

96 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 6 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WHY GO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 22, 26, 34 and 17 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 52-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEZAPC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why Go?

116 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 Why Go hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Why Go?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 22, 26, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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