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Loose · Primer 55

Loose · Primer 55
EXERCISE 13 OF 19
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
62 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loose on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and snare through bars 36-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x----g--x---|
BD |x--x--xx---x-xxx|
Loose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-45 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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