Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX) · Pink Floyd

500 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 30:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
500
LENGTH
30:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11-15, and 36 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 · 86 BPM
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND (PARTS I - IX) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 22, 26 and 64 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

500 bars across 16 sections: 200 keep time, 70 are fills, 43 are stops and 173 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-215.

PART C
PART C
PART AR
PART AS
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS16CAUWAS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX)?

86 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 (Parts I - IX) hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

500 bars, about 30:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX)?

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 22, 26 and 64 more.

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