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Pick Up The Bones · Delirio And The Phantoms

Pick Up The Bones · Delirio And The Phantoms
EXERCISE 5 OF 21
Join Break to Chorus (bars 5-7)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pick Up The Bones on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-38 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-51 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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