No Suprises · Radiohead

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25 and 27, and 13 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
NO SUPRISES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 46, 50, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Suprises?

76 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 No Suprises hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in No Suprises?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 46, 50, 52 and 2 more.

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