Radio Free Europe · R.E.M.

119 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 20 and 22, and 22 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
RADIO FREE EUROPE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 53, 63, 89, 93, 99 and 4 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 3 sections: 107 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-52.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Free Europe?

154 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 Free Europe hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Radio Free Europe?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 53, 63, 89, 93, 99 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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