← SONGS

This Picture · Placebo

EXERCISE 4 OF 31
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
100 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Picture on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-84, ride through bars 85-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-133.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|
This Picture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-72 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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