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Romantic · Mannequin Pussy

Romantic · Mannequin Pussy
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove A -- Outro 2
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0 / 33 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADIJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romantic on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-40 and snare through bars 41-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 21, and 8 more places -- 21.7% 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
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Romantic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 39 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Romantic?

92 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 Romantic hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Romantic?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 39 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED