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Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii) · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove S -- Outro 2
0 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 61 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
11:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-164.

The beat

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.

    100
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Echoes Part 1 (Live At Pompeii) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- S, K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED