Photograph · Def Leppard

124 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 67-72 and 99-104, and 2 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PHOTOGRAPH · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 22, 40, 41, 42, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 15 sections: 86 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesLJEXB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Photograph?

124 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 Photograph hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Photograph?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 22, 40, 41, 42, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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