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

EXERCISE 43 OF 97
Join Part W to Part C (bars 90-92)
233 / 500 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, PART C
PART C
PART W
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
500
LENGTH
30:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-50, snare through bars 51-75, hi-hat through bars 76-91 and ride through bars 92-156, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x---------------------------x-x-----|
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - IX) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-43 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-108 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-221 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-92 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 500 BARS ANALYSED