Bone Machine · Pixies

86 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4 and 6, and 19 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BONE MACHINE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 38, 39, 40 and 6 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesALSS7S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bone Machine?

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 Bone Machine hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bone Machine?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 38, 39, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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