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Us And Them · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 27 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 158
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
7 groovesCIS1EB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Us And Them on drums

279 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 7:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-157, toms through bars 158-159 and ride through bars 160-279.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-35, 37-39 and 41-45, and 38 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
HF |--------x-------|
Us And Them -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 55, 75, 95, 99, 101, 102 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 94-208 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 158-212 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 152-218 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 193-224 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 238-264 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Us And Them?

144 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 Us And Them hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

279 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Us And Them?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 55, 75, 95, 99, 101, 102 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED