Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse · Pink Floyd

293 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 10:39 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
10:39
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 91 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
COMFORTABLY NUMB (LIVE)- PULSE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 143, 144, 160, 168, 176, 208 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 143-144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 160 · LANDS ON BAR 161 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 168 · LANDS ON BAR 169 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 208 · LANDS ON BAR 209

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 6 sections: 158 keep time, 16 are fills and 113 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 273-293.

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

Questions

What BPM is Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse?

110 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 Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse hard to play on drums?

38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 10:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 143, 144, 160, 168, 176, 208 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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