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Million Pictures of You · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 14 OF 37
2-bar fill at bar 49
89 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Million Pictures of You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-52, hi-hat through bars 53-84 and toms through bars 85-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Million Pictures of You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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. Bars 15-38 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-77 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-111 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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