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Radioactive · Our Last Night

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Fill at bar 20, 28 and 52 (a small one)
48 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radioactive on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, snare through bars 33-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- N, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-81 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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