The Tourist · Radiohead

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 7:02 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 7 and 10, and 17 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
THE TOURIST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 39, 43, 45, 51, 55 and 26 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 32 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-19.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesKEBMACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Tourist?

76 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 Tourist hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Tourist?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 39, 43, 45, 51, 55 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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