Flaming · Pink Floyd

59 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 18-21, and 9 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
FLAMING · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 58 and 59.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 57-59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 2 sections: 43 keep time, 3 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flaming?

124 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 Flaming hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Flaming?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 58 and 59.

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