Ripcord · Radiohead

107 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-33, 52-57 and 75-89 -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
RIPCORD · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 44, 50, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKANHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ripcord?

138 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 Ripcord hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 44, 50, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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