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How Can You Be Sure? · Radiohead

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
Groove H
61 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Can You Be Sure? on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
How Can You Be Sure? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 24-53 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-61 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED