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Losing Control · Villain of the Story

Losing Control · Villain of the Story
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing Control on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-26, snare through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-57 and snare through bars 58-106.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x---x-|
Losing Control -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-30 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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