Time · Pink Floyd

207 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 6:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-21 and 23, and 7 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
TIME · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 57-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 15 sections: 155 keep time, 14 are fills, 14 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-28.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesANYDK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time?

122 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Time hard to play on drums?

41 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Time?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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