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Anyone Can Play Guitar · Radiohead

EXERCISE 7 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G
48 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anyone Can Play Guitar on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, ride through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-68, ride through bars 69-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-93.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Anyone Can Play Guitar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-92 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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