Death and Romance · Magdalena Bay

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 18, and 13 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
DEATH AND ROMANCE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 19 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 31-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 56-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 80 keep time, 25 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART BD
BREAK 3
12 groovesECAYS13S6+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death and Romance?

106 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 Death and Romance hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Death and Romance?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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