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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

102

LENGTH

3:16

DIFFICULTY

62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-88, snare through bars 89-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-102.

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. Through the Intro and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 24-45 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 67-77 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
7. Bars 87-96 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.