Weird Fishes/Arpeggi · Radiohead

199 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-93 -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 153 BPM
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 3 sections: 173 keep time, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-117.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weird Fishes/Arpeggi?

153 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 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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