Romance Is Boring · Los Campesinos!

86 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 33-40 and 70-77 -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ROMANCE IS BORING · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 20, 48 and 85.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-31.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Romance Is Boring?

128 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 Romance Is Boring hard to play on drums?

45 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Romance Is Boring?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 20, 48 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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