Loser · retardead

42 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 1:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26 and 35-42 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
LOSER · BAR 19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART D
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loser?

111 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?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Loser?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

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