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Ill Wind · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 11 PASSED · 92 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ill Wind on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-69, silence through bars 70-81 and ride through bars 82-129.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |X-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|g-g-g-g-g-g-g---|
SD |----r---------r-|------r-----r---|
T1 |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
Ill Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED