losing My religion · REM

130 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 18 more places -- 76.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
LOSING MY RELIGION · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 41, 81, 89 and 97.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 4 sections: 120 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-80.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGCFill 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?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 religion?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 41, 81, 89 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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