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Time · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 8 OF 58
Run D1 · Part D (bars 30-33)
140 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-78, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    81
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- A, N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-48 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-63 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-95 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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