Comfortably Numb · Roger Waters

216 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 34 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
COMFORTABLY NUMB · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 27, 28, 36 and 14 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 19 sections: 108 keep time, 20 are fills, 68 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-104.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCDS2S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comfortably Numb?

100 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 hard to play on drums?

33 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 8:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 27, 28, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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