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Leathers · Deftones

EXERCISE 32 OF 47
Groove V -- Part V
108 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
8 groovesIRBS1L+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leathers on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, ride through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-51, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 39-40 and 56-58, and 4 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|
Leathers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leathers?

118 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 Leathers 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?

149 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Leathers?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED