Losing You · Dead By April

198 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:03 of playing on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 34-36 and 46-52, and 14 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LOSING YOU · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 37, 53 and 17 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 13 sections: 92 keep time, 23 are fills, 58 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-141.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
8 groovesFLS2S1S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Losing You?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 You hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 You?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 37, 53 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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