Dead Leaves Rising · Unlucky Morpheus

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 27-29, and 13 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEAD LEAVES RISING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 34, 40, 42 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEGTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Leaves Rising?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dead Leaves Rising hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead Leaves Rising?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 34, 40, 42 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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