Exit Music (For A Film) · Radiohead

25 bars, 1:38, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 61 BPM
EXIT MUSIC (FOR A FILM) · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 2 more.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BARS 14-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 11 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-13.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exit Music (For A Film)?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Exit Music (For A Film) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Exit Music (For A Film)?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 2 more.

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