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Loser (AI) · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 8 OF 21
Join Part D to Outro (bars 16-18)
56 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loser (AI) on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-30, snare through bars 31-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 13, and 18 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Loser (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 50 and 59.

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, B, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loser (AI)?

83 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 (AI) 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Loser (AI)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 50 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED