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San Tropez · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Chorus into Part E with the record (bars 32-39)
99 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play San Tropez on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, ride through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-72 and ride through bars 73-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-12 and 14, and 10 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
San Tropez -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is San Tropez?

116 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 San Tropez hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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