Have A Cigar · Pink Floyd

156 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-37, 40 and 44-45, and 25 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
HAVE A CIGAR · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 31, 42, 46, 85, 99 and 7 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 13 are fills, 41 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-30.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJDPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have A Cigar?

111 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 Have A Cigar hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Have A Cigar?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 31, 42, 46, 85, 99 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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