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Radio Player · Allister

EXERCISE 18 OF 26
Groove L -- Part L
101 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAEJL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio Player on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, snare through bars 51-58, hi-hat through bars 59-82 and ride through bars 83-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-82 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-93 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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