Wish You Were Here · Pink Floyd

55 bars, 3:36, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 34-38 and 46-48 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 61 BPM
WISH YOU WERE HERE · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 23, 25, 27 and 6 more.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIDHKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wish You Were Here?

61 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 Wish You Were Here hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wish You Were Here?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 23, 25, 27 and 6 more.

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