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Talk Show Host · Radiohead

EXERCISE 13 OF 13
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART C
BREAK 2
PART C
BREAK 3
CHORUS
BREAK 4
CHORUS 2
BREAK 5
CHORUS 3
BREAK 6
OUTRO
9 groovesECS11S1S13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk Show Host on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, silence through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-41, ride through bars 42-55 and silence through bars 56-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--g-X-g-X-g-X-g-|
SD |xx--X--X-X--X---|
BD |--xx------xx-xx-|
Talk Show Host -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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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