SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMONDS · Pink Floid

201 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 9:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
9:11
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 20 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMONDS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 13 sections: 103 keep time, 11 are fills, 11 are stops and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-145.

CHORUS
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesJS13WRM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMONDS?

120 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 DIAMONDS hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 9:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 DIAMONDS?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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