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Down Is The New Up · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove J -- Outro 2
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0 / 32 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART B
BREAK
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLDJS2B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down Is The New Up on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100

ride through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-27, toms through bars 28-34, ride through bars 35-70 and snare through bars 71-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 41, and 26 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g-----x-----g---g-----x-----g-|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---|
Down Is The New Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 60, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-96 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-64 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down Is The New Up?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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 Down Is The New Up?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 60, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED