Bad Romance · Halestorm

127 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 67-73 and 107-113 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAD ROMANCE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 35, 43, 47 and 23 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 16 sections: 66 keep time, 29 are fills, 17 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART C
PART H
PART J
PART M
PART H
PART J
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART AJ
10 groovesACHMJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Romance?

124 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 Romance hard to play on drums?

51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bad Romance?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 35, 43, 47 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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