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God Is In The Radio · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Is In The Radio on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-34, ride through bars 35-48, toms through bars 49-70, ride through bars 71-85 and toms through bars 86-89, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |---x--X--x--x--x--X--x--|
FT |---x--X--x--x--x--X--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
God Is In The Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-89 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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