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Revolution Radio · Green Day

EXERCISE 19 OF 40
Groove M -- Part M
109 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGDMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revolution Radio on drums

133 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-48 and 70-76, and 5 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Revolution Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 35, 43, 77, 91, 99 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-92 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 50-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revolution Radio?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Revolution Radio hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Radio?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 35, 43, 77, 91, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED