If · Pink Floyd

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 1:57 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-48 -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
IF · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 2 sections: 46 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-50.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If?

103 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 If hard to play on drums?

29 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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