Radio Magic · Earthshaker

181 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-27, 79 and 81-95, and 3 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
RADIO MAGIC · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 46, 78, 80, 96 and 3 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 27 sections: 137 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

CHORUS
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
15 groovesHKOXN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Magic?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Radio Magic 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Magic?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 46, 78, 80, 96 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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