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Denim And Leather · Saxon

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Denim And Leather on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x---x-|
Denim And Leather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-85 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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