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Romance Is Boring · Los Campesinos!

EXERCISE 16 OF 23
Groove I
66 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART J
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romance Is Boring on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Romance Is Boring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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