Maquiladora · Radiohead

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 17-23 and 33, and 8 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MAQUILADORA · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 34, 52, 70 and 103.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 15 sections: 82 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-93.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
8 groovesEBHS1S12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maquiladora?

130 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 Maquiladora hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 34, 52, 70 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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