The Loner · Gary Moore

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-27, and 9 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THE LONER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 36, 42, 46, 54, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 2 sections: 108 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Loner?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Loner hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 The Loner?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 36, 42, 46, 54, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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