← SONGS

Guerrilla Radio · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Groove C
62 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDKAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guerrilla Radio on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-72 and kick and crashes through bars 73-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 49-56, and 2 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Guerrilla Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 48, 64 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-60 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-78 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Guerrilla Radio?

103 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 Guerrilla Radio hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Guerrilla Radio?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 48, 64 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED