Radioactive · Imagine Dragons

104 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 20-22 and 25-26, and 17 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
RADIOACTIVE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 96.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 7 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-58.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
4 groovesABS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radioactive?

136 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?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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