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Twilight Zone (Radio Edit) · Golden Earring

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
VERSE
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
VERSE 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCFMIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twilight Zone (Radio Edit) on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-106, ride through bars 107-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-110, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-18, 20-26 and 52-58, and 2 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Twilight Zone (Radio Edit) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 27, 35 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-52 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Verse 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Twilight Zone (Radio Edit)?

118 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 Twilight Zone (Radio Edit) hard to play on drums?

60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Twilight Zone (Radio Edit)?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 27, 35 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED