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No Suprises · Radiohead

EXERCISE 18 OF 20
Groove M
52 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Suprises on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-35, silence through bars 36-42 and ride through bars 43-67.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
No Suprises -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-53 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED