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The Loner · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Fill at bar 78 (a small one)
115 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Loner on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, toms through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-86, hi-hat through bars 87-94 and ride through bars 95-126.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A, Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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