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Sorrow · David Gilmour

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART B
CHORUS 7
PART A
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDABGS16+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sorrow on drums

341 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
341
LENGTH
11:22
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56 and snare through bars 57-72, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-47, and 16 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 107, 108, 156, 256, 263 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- D, A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 10-88 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-33 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-130 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 120-157 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 153-174 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 236-257 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sorrow?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sorrow hard to play on drums?

36 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

341 bars, about 11:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 107, 108, 156, 256, 263 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 341 BARS ANALYSED