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Radio Ga Ga · Queen

EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 1-57)
134 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio Ga Ga on drums

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

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-58, toms through bars 59-72, hi-hat through bars 73-110, toms through bars 111-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-161.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 71-114 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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