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How To Disappear Completely · Radiohead

EXERCISE 17 OF 36
Groove H
107 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
PART I
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBICGK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How To Disappear Completely on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-150.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
How To Disappear Completely -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-115 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 92-144 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED