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High And Dry · Radiohead

EXERCISE 18 OF 37
Run B2 · Part B (bars 47-54)
72 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High And Dry on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, ride through bars 63-70, hi-hat through bars 71-86 and ride through bars 87-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-xxX-x-X-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
High And Dry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-38 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-66 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 69-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED