Pictures Of You · The Cure

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 7:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-156 -- 99.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
PICTURES OF YOU · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars: 156 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-156.

VERSE
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pictures Of You?

86 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 Pictures Of You hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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