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Fallen Leaves · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 9 OF 27
Run D1 · Part D (bars 9-24)
66 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFDCJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen Leaves on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-47 and snare through bars 48-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 29, and 16 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Fallen Leaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 44, 48, 60 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-57 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fallen 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 Fallen Leaves hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fallen Leaves?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 44, 48, 60 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED