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Bad Romance · Halestorm

EXERCISE 20 OF 54
Join Part J to Part M (bars 43-45)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART M
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bad Romance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, snare through bars 36-43, toms through bars 44-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Bad Romance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-48 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-67 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 66-79 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-123 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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