The Foolish Romantic · Twice She Cried

200 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 21 and 23-25, and 7 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
THE FOOLISH ROMANTIC · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 22, 30, 38, 61, 62 and 20 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 61-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 17 sections: 63 keep time, 26 are fills, 55 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-119.

PART D
PART L
PART R
PART G
PART S11
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesES13LDR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Foolish Romantic?

196 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 The Foolish Romantic hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 The Foolish Romantic?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 22, 30, 38, 61, 62 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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