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Loosing my Religion old Version · Rem

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
83 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loosing my Religion old Version on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 3 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-x-------|
Loosing my Religion old Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 65 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 46-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 86-101 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loosing my Religion old Version?

126 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 Loosing my Religion old Version hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Loosing my Religion old Version?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED