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Radio Magic · Earthshaker

Radio Magic · Earthshaker
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesHKOXN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio Magic on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-48, ride through bars 49-54, snare through bars 55-60, ride through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-97, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Radio Magic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-15 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-82 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-115 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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