Losing It · Rush

181 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-39, 50-58 and 60-68 -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
LOSING IT · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 45, 93, 105, 109, 111, 113 and 22 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 28 are fills, 29 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-68.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBWGIE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing It?

127 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 It hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Losing It?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 45, 93, 105, 109, 111, 113 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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