Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii) · Pink Floyd

164 bars, 11:19, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
11:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 99-105, 107-109 and 111, and 3 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 58 BPM
ECHOES PART 1 (LIVE AT POMPEII) · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 18, 37, 54, 83, 85 and 4 more.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 12 sections: 138 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-164.

PART A
PART H
PART K
PART D
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSKDHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii)?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii) hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 11:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 18, 37, 54, 83, 85 and 4 more.

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