Losing My Religion · R.E.M.

137 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 3 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
LOSING MY RELIGION · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 65 and 6 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 8 sections: 116 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFKMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing My Religion?

126 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 My Religion hard to play on drums?

55 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?

137 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 My Religion?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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