Loose · Primer 55

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
LOOSE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 85.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-84.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesBES7GS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loose?

108 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 Loose 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Loose?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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