bad luck · We Came As Romans, Currents, After the Burial

144 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 28.9% 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 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 25 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 31 are fills, 6 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-46.

CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMTS12AS9+4Fill 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?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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