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Where I End And You Begin · Radiohead

EXERCISE 2 OF 9
Groove E
102 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where I End And You Begin on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-130.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x-----|
SD |-g-gxg-X-g-gxxxX|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Where I End And You Begin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED