Sail To The Moon · Radiohead

54 bars, 3:39, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 37-38, and 4 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 56 BPM
SAIL TO THE MOON · BAR 34
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-53.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART S3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNLS3EI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sail To The Moon?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sail To The Moon hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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