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Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994 · pink floyd

EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove C
70 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
10:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, ride through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 73-113 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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