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Photograph · Nickelback

EXERCISE 25 OF 42
Fill at bar 56, 80 and 84 (a small one)
117 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFEDS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Photograph on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-125, silence through bars 126-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 29 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----g-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Photograph -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 44, 52, 56 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 48-109 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Photograph?

146 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?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 44, 52, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED