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On The Loose · Saga

On The Loose · Saga
EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Join Part L to Verse 4 (bars 80-82)
123 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, VERSE 4
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
PART L
VERSE 4
PART R
OUTRO
VERSE 5
7 groovesBDRLP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Loose on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 2-89, ride through bars 90-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 27 and 29-31, and 13 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|
On The Loose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 57, 73, 89 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-72 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-86 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 84-97 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Loose?

135 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 On The Loose hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 On The Loose?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 57, 73, 89 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED