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Pick Up The Phone (Full Song) · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGBRT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pick Up The Phone (Full Song) on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-64 and snare through bars 65-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 19-25 and 67-77, and 1 more place -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----x--g--o-----x--g--|
Pick Up The Phone (Full Song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 78, 136 and 152.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A, K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-102 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-82 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pick Up The Phone (Full Song)?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Phone (Full Song) hard to play on drums?

63 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Phone (Full Song)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 78, 136 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED