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Picture This · Blondie

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Fill at bar 6, 38, 40 and 5 more
66 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Picture This on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 19-21 and 30, and 16 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 38, 40, 46, 51, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Picture This?

125 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 This hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Picture This?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 38, 40, 46, 51, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED