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Picayune · Satyr

Picayune · Satyr
EXERCISE 5 OF 74
Groove A
62 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART AJ
PART AP
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBPCAPAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Picayune on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-84, hi-hat through bars 85-96, snare through bars 97-120, kick and crashes through bars 121-134 and hi-hat through bars 135-143, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |X-----------|
BD |--x-x-x-x---|
Picayune -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- B, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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