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My Iron Lung · Radiohead

EXERCISE 8 OF 30
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Iron Lung on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-57 and silence through bars 58-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
My Iron Lung -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 28, 44, 45 and 5 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-49 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-77 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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