The Numbers · Radiohead

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-54 and 56-80 -- 97.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THE NUMBERS · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 2 sections: 79 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-81.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Numbers?

80 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 The Numbers hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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