Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun · Pink Floyd

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-50, 57-60 and 71-80, and 2 more places -- 21.7% 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
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 104.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 23 sections: 135 keep time, 2 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-165.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART G
PART J
13 groovesHJGES11+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun?

120 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 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 10 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 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 104.

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