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Between Two Points · David Gilmour

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAFBCG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Between Two Points on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-46, snare through bars 47-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-67, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 11 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-36 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Between Two Points?

76 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 Between Two Points hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Between Two Points?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED