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Myxomatosis · Radiohead

EXERCISE 6 OF 6
Play the whole song with the record
178 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 178 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Myxomatosis on drums

178 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 63 more places -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---o---|
SD |x-------X---x-x-|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Myxomatosis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Myxomatosis?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Myxomatosis hard to play on drums?

54 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED