Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii · David Gilmour

144 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 10:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11-17, and 24 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND - LIVE IN POMPEII · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 34 and 49.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 6 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-96.

CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesCS6JS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii?

80 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 10:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 34 and 49.

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