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Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006 · David Gilmour

EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 53-55)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006 on drums

61 bars, 3:49, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56 and snare through bars 57-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-4 and 6-8, and 12 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 38, 42 and 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006 hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Comfortably Numb - Live in Gdańsk 2006?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 38, 42 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED