Lost In Hollywood · System of a Down

83 bars, 4:26, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-40, 61-63 and 65-67, and 2 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
LOST IN HOLLYWOOD · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 68 and 80.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-40.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDBCEF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lost In Hollywood?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lost In Hollywood hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lost In Hollywood?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 68 and 80.

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