Losing More Than You Ever Had · Accept

163 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 20 more places -- 50.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LOSING MORE THAN YOU EVER HAD · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 33, 41, 45 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-163.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEGJS8N+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing More Than You Ever Had?

130 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 More Than You Ever Had hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 More Than You Ever Had?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 33, 41, 45 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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