The Daily Mail · Radiohead

23 bars, 1:32, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 59 BPM
THE DAILY MAIL · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 1 more.

LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 17-23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 2 sections: 12 keep time, 7 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Daily Mail?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Daily Mail hard to play on drums?

52 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?

23 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Daily Mail?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 1 more.

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