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Loser · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 4 OF 44
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
100 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGFIS10B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loser on drums

191 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-49, hi-hat through bars 50-89, snare through bars 90-113, hi-hat through bars 114-116 and silence through bars 117-133, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-34, 38-39 and 45-46, and 12 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----|
Loser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-146 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loser?

192 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?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED