You and Whose Army? · Radiohead

22 bars, 1:19, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 17, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 67 BPM
YOU AND WHOSE ARMY? · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 4 sections: 8 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You and Whose Army??

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is You and Whose Army? hard to play on drums?

41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 You and Whose Army??

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22.

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