Picayune · Satyr

203 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 225 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7, and 26 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
PICAYUNE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 19, 37, 51, 52, 54, 65 and 30 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 36 are fills, 78 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-92.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART C
PART AJ
PART AP
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBPCAPAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Picayune?

225 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Picayune hard to play on drums?

64 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Picayune?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 19, 37, 51, 52, 54, 65 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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