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The Process of Losing and Gaining · Before Today

EXERCISE 1 OF 129
Groove R -- Part R
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PART C
PART O
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AS
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AL
PART R
PART R
PART AL
OUTRO 2
15 groovesADALRCAS+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Process of Losing and Gaining on drums

217 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 31 and 72, and 10 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    154
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
The Process of Losing and Gaining -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 77 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 97 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 -- R, AL -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-202 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-42 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Process of Losing and Gaining?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Process of Losing and Gaining hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 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 Process of Losing and Gaining?

31 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED