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Climbing Up The Walls · Radiohead

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Fill at bar 58, 64 and 66 (a small one)
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Climbing Up The Walls on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-76.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |X-g-x---X---x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Climbing Up The Walls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED