Radioactive · Our Last Night

105 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-43 and 46, and 6 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
RADIOACTIVE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-79.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNGS8BR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radioactive?

137 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?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Radioactive?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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