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Bad Luck · We Came As Romans

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBOS12T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Luck on drums

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

47 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
139
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
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

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 43, 44 and 13 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 -- I, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-31 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-76 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-90 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 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?

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