Anyone Can Play Guitar · Radiohead

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-36 and 38-39, and 3 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 16, 23, 24, 32, 45 and 4 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-66.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJBGNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anyone Can Play Guitar?

76 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 Anyone Can Play Guitar hard to play on drums?

62 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Anyone Can Play Guitar?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 16, 23, 24, 32, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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