Losing Control · Villain of the Story

106 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 18 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
LOSING CONTROL · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 34, 42, 46 and 7 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-74.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBNIQS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing Control?

124 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 Losing Control hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Losing Control?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 34, 42, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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