Fearless · Pink Floyd

82 bars, 4:31, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9 and 11, and 13 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
FEARLESS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 75 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-64.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fearless?

72 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 Fearless hard to play on drums?

42 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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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