Nerds & Cigarettes · Picture Me Broken

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-34, 51-66 and 85, and 1 more place -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NERDS & CIGARETTES · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 36, 38, 40, 44 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 16 sections: 71 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-66.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDFHBS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nerds & Cigarettes?

120 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 Nerds & Cigarettes hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nerds & Cigarettes?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 10, 14, 36, 38, 40, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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