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loose ends · holywatr

loose ends · holywatr
EXERCISE 16 OF 44
2-bar fill at bar 47
93 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play loose ends on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-78, hi-hat through bars 79-88 and toms through bars 89-90, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
loose ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 48, 88, 89, 90, 95 and 1 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-45 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-121 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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