Mexican Radio · Authority Zero

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 2:35 of playing on snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 36-41 and 63-76, and 1 more place -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MEXICAN RADIO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-82.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADJBS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mexican Radio?

125 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Mexican Radio hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mexican Radio?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

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