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Losing Sight · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART A
PART O
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBAMO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Losing Sight on drums

145 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 56, 104, 144 and 145.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Losing Sight?

175 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 Sight hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Sight?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 56, 104, 144 and 145.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED