Fat Old Sun · Pink Floyd

77 bars, 4:10, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 22-23, and 11 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
FAT OLD SUN · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 6 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-75.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS2S4S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fat Old Sun?

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

Is Fat Old Sun hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fat Old Sun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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