15 Step · Radiohead

71 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-12, 15-22 and 40, and 1 more place -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
15 STEP · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 7 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 32-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 45-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 6 sections: 33 keep time, 13 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesBES6SS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 15 Step?

92 BPM, in 5/4, 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 15 Step hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 15 Step?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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