Cymbaline · Pink Floyd

128 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 31-36 and 49-54, and 5 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
CYMBALINE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 18 sections: 94 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-48.

COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDES1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cymbaline?

154 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 Cymbaline hard to play on drums?

35 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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