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The Foolish Romantic · Twice She Cried

The Foolish Romantic · Twice She Cried
EXERCISE 41 OF 70
Groove AE
86 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Foolish Romantic on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-29, toms through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Foolish Romantic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part G -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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