A Punch Up at a Wedding · Radiohead

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-97 -- 99% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
A PUNCH UP AT A WEDDING · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 98
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars: 97 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-97.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Punch Up at a Wedding?

80 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 A Punch Up at a Wedding 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Punch Up at a Wedding?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

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