Pick Up The Bones · Delirio And The Phantoms

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 35-41 and 51-57, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
PICK UP THE BONES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 33, 34 and 50.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pick Up The Bones?

86 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 Pick Up The Bones hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Pick Up The Bones?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 33, 34 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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