How Can You Be Sure? · Radiohead

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 27 and 29, and 6 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HOW CAN YOU BE SURE? · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 56, 64, 71 and 1 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEMDC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How Can You Be Sure??

77 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 How Can You Be Sure? hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 How Can You Be Sure??

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 56, 64, 71 and 1 more.

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