Octopus · Syd Barrett

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 20-26 and 28-46, and 10 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
OCTOPUS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 103 and 104.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 103-104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 3 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-95.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Octopus?

90 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 Octopus hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 8 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Octopus?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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