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The Spirit Of Radio · Rush

EXERCISE 17 OF 98
Groove L
64 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART V
PART AC
PART AG
PART AC
PART AR
PART R
PART S
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKSVACAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Spirit Of Radio on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-22 and ride through bars 23-26, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
The Spirit Of Radio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- AC, K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-167 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-169 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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