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Radio · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 5 OF 30
Fill at bar 50, 54, 58 and 3 more (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, 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
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17, and 27 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 34, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-110 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio?

113 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 Radio 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Radio?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 34, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED