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Radio · Rammstein

EXERCISE 19 OF 35
Join Chorus 3 to Part K (bars 95-97)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART K
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART M
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEKS10M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-49, silence through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-86, snare through bars 87-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-94, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 34-48, and 6 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o--ooo--o---o-|--o---o--oo---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 66, 82, 87, 88, 95 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-67 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio?

132 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 66, 82, 87, 88, 95 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED