Jigsaw Falling Into Place · Radiohead

165 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-23, 25-35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 169 BPM
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 3 sections: 160 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-116.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jigsaw Falling Into Place?

169 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jigsaw Falling Into Place hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jigsaw Falling Into Place?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.

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