Burning Leaves · Ensiferum

183 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 82-88 and 99, and 10 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BURNING LEAVES · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 41, 65, 81, 89, 96 and 9 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 15 are fills, 17 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBGIS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Leaves?

124 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 Burning Leaves hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 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 Burning Leaves?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 41, 65, 81, 89, 96 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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