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Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Part A
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CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
10:39
DIFFICULTY
38/100

ride through bars 1-142, toms through bars 143-144, ride through bars 145-246, snare through bars 247-248, ride through bars 249-254 and snare through bars 255-256, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Comfortably Numb (Live)- Pulse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 11 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 240-271 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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