Pigs (Three Different Ones) · Pink Floyd

175 bars, 11:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
11:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-17 and 35-36, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
PIGS (THREE DIFFERENT ONES) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 29, 30, 37, 53, 54 and 18 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 24 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-175.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART A
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGOCXA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pigs (Three Different Ones)?

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

Is Pigs (Three Different Ones) hard to play on drums?

54 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?

175 bars, about 11:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pigs (Three Different Ones)?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 29, 30, 37, 53, 54 and 18 more.

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