loser · Bobby Taylor

104 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 41-44 and 97-104 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
LOSER · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 20.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 2 are fills, 15 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-95.

PART C
PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFCGD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is loser?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is loser hard to play on drums?

57 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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