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Lost In Hollywood · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 28 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost In Hollywood on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52 and toms through bars 53-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x------x--x--|
Lost In Hollywood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-44 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED