Losing Grip · Avril Lavigne

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13, and 5 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LOSING GRIP · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 34, 38, 42, 48 and 4 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 50 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing Grip?

85 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 Grip hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Grip?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 34, 38, 42, 48 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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