My Iron Lung · Radiohead

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
MY IRON LUNG · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 28, 44, 45 and 5 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 44-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-116.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKBCS11S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Iron Lung?

94 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 My Iron Lung hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Iron Lung?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 28, 44, 45 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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