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Red Eyed Romance · Stars In Stereo

Red Eyed Romance · Stars In Stereo
EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 58 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART O
PART B
OUTRO
12 groovesHOAAUE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Eyed Romance on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-45 and kick and crashes through bars 46-48, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 and 49-53 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |ggggggggxggggggg|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Red Eyed Romance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 28, 38, 42 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-13 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-55 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Eyed Romance?

154 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 Red Eyed Romance hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Red Eyed Romance?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 28, 38, 42 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED