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Heart of Leningrad · Dark Lunacy

Heart of Leningrad · Dark Lunacy
EXERCISE 5 OF 85
Groove Y -- Part Y
28 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART C
PART U
PART AQ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesACUYQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart of Leningrad on drums

228 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and snare through bars 61-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-17 and 69-75, and 1 more place -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Heart of Leningrad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 11, 28, 36, 60, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-33 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-52 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heart of Leningrad?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heart of Leningrad hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heart of Leningrad?

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 11, 28, 36, 60, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED