In Limbo · Radiohead

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-8, 19-25 and 34-41 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
IN LIMBO · BARS 3-4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCES7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Limbo?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In Limbo hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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