Climbing Up The Walls · Radiohead

76 bars, 4:03, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 44-50 and 54 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
CLIMBING UP THE WALLS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64 and 5 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 3 sections: 57 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-54.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Climbing Up The Walls?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Climbing Up The Walls hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Climbing Up The Walls?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64 and 5 more.

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