Pick Up the Pieces · Burning Spear

223 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 27-32 and 39-51, and 19 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PICK UP THE PIECES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 25 sections: 184 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 190-218.

PART L
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesMNRLG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pick Up the Pieces?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Pick Up the Pieces 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pick Up the Pieces?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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