Sorrow · Pink Floyd

173 bars, 11:56, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
11:56
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18-57 and 66-73, and 1 more place -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 58 BPM
SORROW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 6 sections: 149 keep time, 8 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-173.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS5AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sorrow?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sorrow hard to play on drums?

34 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 11:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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