Loser - Sunday Cruise · Sunday Cruise

101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LOSER - SUNDAY CRUISE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 42 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 14 sections: 33 keep time, 48 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFAJEABD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loser - Sunday Cruise?

115 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 - Sunday Cruise hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 - Sunday Cruise?

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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