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Revolution · BRADIO

Revolution · BRADIO
EXERCISE 5 OF 35
Fill at bar 8, 76 and 92 (a small one)
93 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revolution on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-109 and toms through bars 110-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 10-12 and 19-24, and 7 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |------x---x---x-|
Revolution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 36, 44, 60 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-45 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-80 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Revolution?

153 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 Revolution hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Revolution?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 36, 44, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED