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Picture Frame · Origami Angel

EXERCISE 12 OF 24
Groove I -- Part I
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CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGDIS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Picture Frame on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 27-35 and 69-72 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 36, 39, 40 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-61 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Picture Frame?

115 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 Picture Frame hard to play on drums?

62 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Picture Frame?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 36, 39, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED