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Loop & Loop · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove N -- Chorus
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PART A
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
PART S
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNAFIS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loop & Loop on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-50, toms through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-67 and 88, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Loop & Loop?

135 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 Loop & Loop 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Loop & Loop?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED