Pearly* · Radiohead

99 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-17, and 12 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
PEARLY* · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 34, 54, 58, 72, 73 and 1 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 72-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

PART C
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIBECS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pearly*?

117 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 Pearly* hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pearly*?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 34, 54, 58, 72, 73 and 1 more.

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