Loose Change · Royal Blood

111 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 22 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
LOOSE CHANGE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 76, 84, 108, 110 and 111.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 6 sections: 91 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHKDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loose Change?

164 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 Loose Change 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Loose Change?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 76, 84, 108, 110 and 111.

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