Bad Romance (metal cover) · Lady Gaga

113 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

113

LENGTH

3:20

DIFFICULTY

68/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-25 and 28-34, and 6 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 26, 27, 35 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Bars 13-18 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 26-76 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.