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Losing My Life · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 26 OF 82
Groove T -- Part T
120 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
BREAK 9
PART B
21 groovesDKUBS26+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing My Life on drums

228 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-12, silence through bars 13-29, snare through bars 30-42, toms through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-61, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34-36, and 22 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|
Losing My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- D -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-94 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Losing My Life?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Losing My Life hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Life?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED