In The Flesh? · Pink Floyd

86 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 3:48 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-14 and 24, and 13 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 68 BPM
IN THE FLESH? · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 23, 27, 29 and 24 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time, 30 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAHS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Flesh??

68 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In The Flesh? hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in In The Flesh??

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 23, 27, 29 and 24 more.

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