Planet Telex · Radiohead

152 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
PLANET TELEX · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 40, 44, 72, 84 and 88.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 7 sections: 136 keep time, 6 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-152.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAES2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Planet Telex?

144 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 Planet Telex hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Planet Telex?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 40, 44, 72, 84 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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