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

EXERCISE 20 OF 44
Groove N
127 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS1OGPR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
9:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-97, hi-hat through bars 98-106, toms through bars 107-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-117, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Another Brick In The Wall (pt 1-3) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- O, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 103-118 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 107-206 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 204-214 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED