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Loose Change · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 24 OF 29
Fill at bar 108 (a small one)
102 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHKDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loose Change on drums

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.

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
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-92 and snare through bars 93-111.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Loose Change -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED