Where I End And You Begin · Radiohead

130 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17 and 20-22, and 12 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 2 sections: 119 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-128.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where I End And You Begin?

123 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 Where I End And You Begin hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Where I End And You Begin?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.

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