God Is In The Radio · Queens Of The Stone Age

173 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 12 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
GOD IS IN THE RADIO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 42, 68, 78, 91 and 104.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 15 sections: 140 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-31.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBMGS12S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Is In The Radio?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 God Is In The Radio hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 God Is In The Radio?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 42, 68, 78, 91 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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