Million Pictures of You · Simple Plan

126 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 35-40 and 43-48, and 5 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 149 BPM
MILLION PICTURES OF YOU · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 26, 41, 42, 49, 50 and 12 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 18 are fills, 31 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-68.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDALS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Million Pictures of You?

149 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 Million Pictures of You hard to play on drums?

60 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Million Pictures of You?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 26, 41, 42, 49, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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