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2 + 2 = 5 · Radiohead

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove C -- Part C
46 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G, PART C
PART D
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesRSS7VC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2 + 2 = 5 on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-81 and silence through bars 82-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-46 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
2 + 2 = 5 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 76 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- R, S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2 + 2 = 5?

149 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 2 + 2 = 5 hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 2 + 2 = 5?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 76 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED