Decks Dark · Radiohead

61 bars, 3:36, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-18 and 20-26, and 4 more places -- 85.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
DECKS DARK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 5 sections: 54 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesDS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decks Dark?

70 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 Decks Dark hard to play on drums?

33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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