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Losing Faith · Envine

EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesYOAZTU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 6
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing Faith on drums

214 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-7, snare through bars 8-16, toms through bars 17-19, silence through bars 20-23 and kick and crashes through bars 24-27, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-69, 72-74 and 76-77, and 9 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64               65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
Losing Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 13, 15, 26, 27 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- Y, AZ -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-148 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-31 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-49 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-60 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Losing Faith?

176 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 Losing Faith hard to play on drums?

59 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Losing Faith?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 13, 15, 26, 27 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED