Bad Luck · We Came As Romans

139 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAD LUCK · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 43, 44 and 13 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 15 sections: 72 keep time, 19 are fills, 17 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-80.

PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBOS12T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Luck?

138 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 Bad Luck hard to play on drums?

47 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bad Luck?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 43, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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