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

bad luck · We Came As Romans, Currents, After the Burial
EXERCISE 3 OF 56
6-bar fill at bar 47 and 1 more
45 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bad luck on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-77, silence through bars 78-89 and snare through bars 90-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-x---xx|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-x-----------|
bad luck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-61 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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