Bridge Over Troubled Water (Full) · Simon & Garfunkel

41 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 1:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-35 -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (FULL) · BAR 29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 40.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 6 sections: 24 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBS1AS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bridge Over Troubled Water (Full)?

85 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 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Full) hard to play on drums?

29 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Full)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 40.

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