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Lose Control · Teddy Swims

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove H
58 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCAFS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lose Control on drums

91 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, toms through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23 and 27-29, and 13 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1.....2.....3.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x----------------x|
Lose Control -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 58, 81 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, D, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-32 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-83 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lose Control?

80 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lose Control hard to play on drums?

55 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lose Control?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 58, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED