Interstellar Overdrive · Pink Floyd

36 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 1:04 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-23, 26-28 and 31-35 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 3 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-35.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Interstellar Overdrive?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Interstellar Overdrive hard to play on drums?

55 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Interstellar Overdrive?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

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