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Down Is The New Up (AI) · Radiohead

EXERCISE 16 OF 42
Groove O -- Outro
89 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAES2LO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down Is The New Up (AI) on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-32, toms through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|-x--x----x--x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Down Is The New Up (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 34, 60, 86, 90, 92 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-81 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-53 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-77 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down Is The New Up (AI)?

105 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 Down Is The New Up (AI) hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Down Is The New Up (AI)?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 34, 60, 86, 90, 92 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED