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Losing Grip · Avril Lavigne

EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Groove C
55 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing Grip on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-70 and kick and crashes through bars 71-72.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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