Radioactive · Bullet For My Valentine

113 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-63 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
RADIOACTIVE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 88 and 113.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 37 keep time, 3 are fills, 42 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-63.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
9 groovesCES1S9A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radioactive?

143 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 Radioactive hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Radioactive?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 88 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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