Brain Damage / Eclipse · Pink Floyd

210 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-48 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BRAIN DAMAGE / ECLIPSE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 41, 42, 50, 85, 86, 94 and 12 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 6 sections: 112 keep time, 18 are fills and 77 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-40.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Damage / Eclipse?

134 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 Brain Damage / Eclipse hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Brain Damage / Eclipse?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 41, 42, 50, 85, 86, 94 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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