A Saucerful Of Secrets · Pink Floyd

141 bars, 11:04, at 51 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
51 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
11:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 56-57 and 72-73 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 51 BPM
A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 30 more.

LOOP · 51 BPM
BARS 54-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 51 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 51 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
LOOP · 51 BPM
BARS 111-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 36 are fills, 4 are stops and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-49.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
BREAK
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS2EPS5S+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Saucerful Of Secrets?

51 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Saucerful Of Secrets hard to play on drums?

54 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 11:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Saucerful Of Secrets?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 30 more.

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