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Leaders · Katatonia

EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
36 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leaders on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-34, toms through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-57 and snare through bars 58-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Leaders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-67 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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