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Electioneering · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBECH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Electioneering on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-56, snare through bars 57-76, ride through bars 77-92 and kick and crashes through bars 93-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Electioneering -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-122 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-121 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-112 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED