Subterranean Homesick Alien · Radiohead

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 4:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-19, and 10 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK ALIEN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 38, 39 and 21 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 64 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCFBPS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Subterranean Homesick Alien?

76 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Subterranean Homesick Alien hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Subterranean Homesick Alien?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 38, 39 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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