Radio Ga Ga · Queen

161 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 60 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
RADIO GA GA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 118 and 119.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 118-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 6 sections: 153 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-57.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Ga Ga?

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 Ga Ga hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Ga Ga?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 118 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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