Electioneering · Radiohead

137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ELECTIONEERING · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 104, 130 and 132.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 3 are fills, 22 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-54.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBECH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electioneering?

150 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 Electioneering hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Electioneering?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 104, 130 and 132.

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