This Picture · Placebo

133 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51, 69-75 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THIS PICTURE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 36, 52, 68, 76, 84 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 7 sections: 119 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-132.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Picture?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is This Picture hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 This Picture?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 36, 52, 68, 76, 84 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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