Losing A Whole Year · Third Eye Blind

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 25-27 and 41-44, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LOSING A WHOLE YEAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBOHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing A Whole Year?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Losing A Whole Year hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Losing A Whole Year?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 3 more.

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