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Radio/Video · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove G -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesGDJS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radio/Video on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, ride through bars 50-56, hi-hat through bars 57-74 and ride through bars 75-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48, 57-72 and 81-88, and 2 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Radio/Video -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 135, 137 and 138.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 118-136 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Radio/Video?

140 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/Video hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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/Video?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 135, 137 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED