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Loser · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 4 OF 38
Groove D -- Part D
28 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loser on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ggggggggggx-gggg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Loser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-64 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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