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I'm Picky · Shaka Ponk

I'm Picky · Shaka Ponk
EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Fill at bar 34, 74 and 110 (a small one)
72 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm Picky on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-25, 43-45 and 47-64, and 1 more place -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
I'm Picky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 34, 38, 66, 74, 78 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-40 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-46 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm Picky?

115 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 I'm Picky hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I'm Picky?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 34, 38, 66, 74, 78 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED