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Losing It · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing It on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-123, hi-hat through bars 124-139 and ride through bars 140-181.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e
RD |x-xxx-x-x-|
SD |------r---|
Losing It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-112 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 104-117 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 115-126 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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