The Spirit Of Radio · Rush

174 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-60 and 87-96 -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
THE SPIRIT OF RADIO · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 36 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 17 sections: 103 keep time, 42 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-160.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART V
PART AC
PART AG
PART AC
PART AR
PART R
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKSVACAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Spirit Of Radio?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spirit Of Radio hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Spirit Of Radio?

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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