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Dead Leaves Rising · Unlucky Morpheus

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Groove D
63 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Leaves Rising on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-82, toms through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-107 and toms through bars 108-110.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dead Leaves Rising -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-59 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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