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Lucky · Radiohead

EXERCISE 10 OF 29
Fill at bar 28 and 56 (a small one)
45 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEKNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucky on drums

75 bars, 4:13, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 2-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-68 and ride through bars 69-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 2 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |gggggggggggggggg|
HF |----x-------x---|
Lucky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucky?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lucky hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lucky?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED