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Subterranean Homesick Alien · Radiohead

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
51 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCFBPS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subterranean Homesick Alien on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, ride through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g----x--g-g|
BD |x--x-x------|
Subterranean Homesick Alien -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-73 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-102 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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