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Hearing Damage · Thom Yorke

Hearing Damage · Thom Yorke
EXERCISE 21 OF 54
Run M1 · Part M (bars 61-72)
85 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hearing Damage on drums

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

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33, ride through bars 34-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-121, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x------x--x-|
BD |x-xx----xx------|
Hearing Damage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- K, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-83 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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