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15 Step · Radiohead

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesBES6SS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 15 Step on drums

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

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-23, ride through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--xx-x--x---xx-x--x-|
BD |x-----xx--x-----xx--|
15 Step -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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