Radio Nowhere · Bruce Springsteen

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 18-25 and 34-43, and 2 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
RADIO NOWHERE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-115.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Nowhere?

140 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 Nowhere hard to play on drums?

45 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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