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Pickup Man · Joe Diffie

Pickup Man · Joe Diffie
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCLS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pickup Man on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Pickup Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 76-107 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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