Ill Wind · Radiohead

129 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-36, 38-69 and 98-105, and 4 more places -- 78% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 147 BPM
ILL WIND · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 4 sections: 116 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-69.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ill Wind?

147 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 Ill Wind hard to play on drums?

56 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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