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Romance Is Dead · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 18 OF 79
Groove K -- Part K
72 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART X
PART A
PART K
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
17 groovesGXDALA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romance Is Dead on drums

184 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47, snare through bars 48-55, toms through bars 56-64 and snare through bars 65-101, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Romance Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 22, 32, 36, 50, 54 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- G, AL -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 44-65 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Romance Is Dead?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Romance Is Dead hard to play on drums?

59 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?

184 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Romance Is Dead?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 22, 32, 36, 50, 54 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED