Just · Radiohead

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-6, 17 and 19, and 10 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
JUST · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 12, 15, 24, 30, 33 and 6 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-68.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCOIES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just?

88 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 Just hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Just?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 12, 15, 24, 30, 33 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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