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Losing A Whole Year · Third Eye Blind

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove D -- Part D
38 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing A Whole Year on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-44, toms through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------g-x---x-----------|
Losing A Whole Year -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED