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Radio Song · Superbus

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Fill at bar 4
61 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHEQSC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio Song on drums

89 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 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
89
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56 and toms through bars 57-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-55 and 73-79 -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Radio Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 32, 40, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-58 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-68 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio Song?

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 Song hard to play on drums?

64 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Radio Song?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 32, 40, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED