Radicalized · Jungle Rot

100 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 7 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
RADICALIZED · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 36, 48, 52 and 6 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADHPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radicalized?

144 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 Radicalized hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Radicalized?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 36, 48, 52 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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