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The Tourist · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Tourist on drums

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.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
35/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----x-----x---|
SD |g---------g-----|
BD |x---------------|
The Tourist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, K, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-121 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-92 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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