Optimistic · Radiohead

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-49 and 59-77 -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 79 BPM
OPTIMISTIC · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 106.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-49.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADIEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Optimistic?

79 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 Optimistic hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Optimistic?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 106.

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