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Photograph · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 11 OF 41
Groove H
85 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART E
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Photograph on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-31, ride through bars 32-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58 and snare through bars 59-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----g-------g---|
RD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Photograph -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- L, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-75 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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