Loser · 3 Doors Down

88 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19 and 29-31 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
LOSER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 40, 44, 52 and 10 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDBS1K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loser?

132 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 Loser hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Loser?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 40, 44, 52 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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