High And Dry · Radiohead

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 35-46 and 75-77 -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
HIGH AND DRY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 31, 33, 34, 54, 62 and 6 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADBJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High And Dry?

86 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 High And Dry hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 High And Dry?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 31, 33, 34, 54, 62 and 6 more.

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