Talk Show Host · Radiohead

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-55, 60-63 and 72-87, and 1 more place -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TALK SHOW HOST · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 80 keep time and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-87.

PART C
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesECS11S1S13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talk Show Host?

87 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 Talk Show Host hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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