Denim And Leather · Saxon

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 36-37, and 11 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
DENIM AND LEATHER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 62, 74, 82, 94 and 98.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-118.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Denim And Leather?

86 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 Denim And Leather hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Denim And Leather?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 62, 74, 82, 94 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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