Lose Control · Ash

160 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 10 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
LOSE CONTROL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 102 and 134.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 130 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-37.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFKHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lose Control?

210 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 Lose Control hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lose Control?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 102 and 134.

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