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Radar Love · Golden Earring

EXERCISE 31 OF 78
Groove Y -- Part Y
206 / 300 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, PART Z
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
PART Z
PART AN
PART AA
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesEUGLAN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radar Love on drums

300 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 10:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
10:25
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, ride through bars 59-65, snare through bars 66-96 and toms through bars 97-98, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-47 and 71-96 -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------------------------x---|
Radar Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 48, 58, 97, 98, 107, 108 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- E, U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-99 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 96-116 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Radar Love?

115 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 Radar Love hard to play on drums?

57 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 10:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Radar Love?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 48, 58, 97, 98, 107, 108 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 300 BARS ANALYSED