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Comfortably Numb · Roger Waters

Comfortably Numb · Roger Waters
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
PART C
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCDS2S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comfortably Numb on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26 and kick and crashes through bars 27-28, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------------|
Comfortably Numb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-44 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-129 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 154-192 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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