Bad Romance · Lady Gaga

141 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-33 and 58-73 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAD ROMANCE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 11 sections: 54 keep time, 68 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-33.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesDBS11S8S9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bad Romance?

120 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?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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