The Human Radio · Shinedown

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 12 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
THE HUMAN RADIO · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 33, 35, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 12 sections: 47 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBOLS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Human Radio?

91 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 The Human Radio hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 The Human Radio?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 33, 35, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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