Here Comes Your Man · Pixies

102 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 28-31 and 49-54, and 4 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HERE COMES YOUR MAN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 27, 36, 48, 55, 59 and 3 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

INTRO
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDFNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here Comes Your Man?

125 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 Here Comes Your Man hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Here Comes Your Man?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 27, 36, 48, 55, 59 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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