Hearing Damage · Thom Yorke

146 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 42-43 and 45-47, and 11 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HEARING DAMAGE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 142, 143, 144, 145 and 146.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 142-146 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 15 sections: 107 keep time, 5 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-59.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKAFVEJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hearing Damage?

116 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 Hearing Damage hard to play on drums?

62 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?

146 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hearing Damage?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 142, 143, 144, 145 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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