Lost For Words (Full Song) · Pink Floyd

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35, 37-64 and 73-78, and 3 more places -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
LOST FOR WORDS (FULL SONG) · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 71, 79 and 107.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 6 sections: 112 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-64.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBAS1S4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lost For Words (Full Song)?

96 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 Lost For Words (Full Song) hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Lost For Words (Full Song)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 71, 79 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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