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Leader Of The Rats · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 10 OF 57
Join Part F to Part I (bars 22-24)
100 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
PART W
PART K
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAKWDI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leader Of The Rats on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 26.7% 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---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Leader Of The Rats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 51, 52, 60 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- D, K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 49-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-94 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-120 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leader Of The Rats?

145 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 Leader Of The Rats hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Leader Of The Rats?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 51, 52, 60 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED