Matilda Mother · Pink Floyd

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-86 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MATILDA MOTHER · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-86.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART D
PART I
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKFIS1C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Matilda Mother?

120 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 Matilda Mother hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Matilda Mother?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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