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

EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Groove P
88 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesCS6JS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii on drums

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.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
23/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-96 and silence through bars 97-144.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-x---|
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Live in Pompeii -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, J -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED