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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter · Nirvana

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove I
124 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
4 groovesDKS1PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio Friendly Unit Shifter on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-79, snare through bars 80-93, hi-hat through bars 94-125, snare through bars 126-141 and hi-hat through bars 142-180.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 33-45 and 57-69, and 4 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-o-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |------x---x---x-|--x-------x---x-|
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 79, 83, 91 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 131-172 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio Friendly Unit Shifter?

153 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 Friendly Unit Shifter hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Friendly Unit Shifter?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 79, 83, 91 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED