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Radio · The Corrs

Radio · The Corrs
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 11 PASSED · 113 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBCDS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-86, toms through bars 87-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-105, hi-hat through bars 106-136 and kick and crashes through bars 137-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-86 and 106-136 -- 83.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 83-106 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio?

120 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?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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