How To Disappear Completely · Radiohead

150 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-59 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 75, 107, 129, 130, 131 and 143.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 129-131 · LANDS ON BAR 132 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBICGK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How To Disappear Completely?

78 BPM, in 3/4, 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 To Disappear Completely hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in How To Disappear Completely?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 75, 107, 129, 130, 131 and 143.

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