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Planet Telex · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAES2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Planet Telex on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, silence through bars 61-64 and ride through bars 65-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|----x-x---------|
Planet Telex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-48 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

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