Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3) · Pink Floyd

240 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 9:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
9:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 126-139, 141-148 and 150-167, and 2 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PT 1-3) · BAR 126
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 225, 229, 236 and 237.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 225 · LANDS ON BAR 226
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 229 · LANDS ON BAR 230
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 236-237 · LANDS ON BAR 238 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 12 sections: 130 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 88 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-189.

CHORUS
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS1OGPR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3)?

100 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 Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3) hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 9:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 225, 229, 236 and 237.

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