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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

111 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

156

LENGTH

5:36

DIFFICULTY

46/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-32, ride through bars 33-99, hi-hat through bars 100-109, ride through bars 110-149 and snare through bars 150-153, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|

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

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, K, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 5-76 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 16 minutes.