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Sheep · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 14 OF 73
Fill at bar 39 (a small one)
143 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART L
PART S12
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDFS12LS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sheep on drums

234 bars, 15:06, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
15:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-76, silence through bars 77-87, ride through bars 88-108, silence through bars 109-133 and ride through bars 134-181, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 16-18, and 50 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Sheep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-76 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-134 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 131-158 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 161-184 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sheep?

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

Is Sheep hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 15:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sheep?

26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED