The Sound of Muzak
Porcupine Tree · 2002
A modern staple for practicing fluid grooves in odd time signatures.
- Artist
- Porcupine Tree
- Year
- 2002
- Genre
- alt-rock
- Drummer
- Gavin Harrison
- Tempo
- 96 bpm
- Time
- 7/8
- Feel
- odd-meter groove
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
76bpm
Target
96bpm
The feel
A odd-meter groove in 7/8 around 96 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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