loose ends · holywatr

136 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LOOSE ENDS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 48, 88, 89, 90, 95 and 1 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 88-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 102 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCELHK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is loose ends?

155 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 ends hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 loose ends?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 48, 88, 89, 90, 95 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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