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Loser · Beck

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loser on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 3-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-23 and 25-43, and 3 more places -- 92.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ogooxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |----x--x-g--x--x|
BD |x-xx----x--x-x--|
HF |----x-----------|
Loser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loser?

85 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?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED