Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994 · pink floyd

145 bars, 10:21, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
10:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 56 BPM
COMFORTABLY NUMB - PULSE CONCERT PERFORMANCE 1994 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 33, 68, 72, 80, 84 and 19 more.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 10 sections: 103 keep time, 25 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART G
PART M
OUTRO
6 groovesAGMBAG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 - pulse concert performance 1994 hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 10:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 - pulse concert performance 1994?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 33, 68, 72, 80, 84 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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