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Sulk · Radiohead

EXERCISE 18 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
106 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 113 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART S2
BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAHS2ES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sulk on drums

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 63 BPM, 5:23 of playing on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-43, silence through bars 44-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48, silence through bars 49-50 and ride through bars 51-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-27 and 29-39, and 5 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---g-----g--------x--------g-----g--|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
Sulk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 66, 98 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-74 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sulk?

63 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sulk hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sulk?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 66, 98 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED