Pickup Man · Joe Diffie

128 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-12 and 14-15, and 17 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PICKUP MAN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 59.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills, 22 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-43.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCLS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pickup Man?

140 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 Pickup Man hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Pickup Man?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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