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Careful With That Axe, Eugene · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 8 OF 47
Groove D
88 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMVERN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Careful With That Axe, Eugene on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-79, hi-hat through bars 80-82, ride through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-90 and ride through bars 91-93, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-51, 60-74 and 116-131 -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    20
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x--xx---x---x---x--x|
SD |--------r---------------r-------|
Careful With That Axe, Eugene -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 93 and 4 more.

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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-63 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Careful With That Axe, Eugene?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Careful With That Axe, Eugene hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Careful With That Axe, Eugene?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 93 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED