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Maquiladora · Radiohead

EXERCISE 24 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
93 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 103 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
PART H
BREAK 4
OUTRO
8 groovesEBHS1S12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maquiladora on drums

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

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-----xx--------|
Maquiladora -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-20 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-94 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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