Loser · Tame Impala

151 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
LOSER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 9 sections: 133 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-39.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loser?

165 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?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 117.

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