Leaders · Katatonia

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 9 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LEADERS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 4, 22, 26, 28, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 34-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-53.

PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHFQS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leaders?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Leaders hard to play on drums?

64 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Leaders?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 4, 22, 26, 28, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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