Radio Player · Allister

134 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 27-33, and 7 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RADIO PLAYER · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 22, 26, 34, 42 and 10 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 132-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 10 sections: 103 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-108.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAEJL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Player?

158 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 Player hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Player?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 22, 26, 34, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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