Nude · Radiohead

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 64 BPM, 4:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-46, 49-58 and 81-83 -- 67.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 64 BPM
NUDE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 76, 80 and 84.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-46.

CHORUS
PART D
PART E
5 groovesBEDS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nude?

64 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nude hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nude?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 76, 80 and 84.

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