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I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI) · Mitski

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART A
PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDACNF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI) on drums

83 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 2:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-55, ride through bars 56-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 12 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|
I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 35, 75, 79 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, A -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-32 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI)?

82 BPM, in 2/4, 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 I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI) hard to play on drums?

42 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 I Bet on Losing Dogs (AI)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 35, 75, 79 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED