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Lebrontron · Buckethead

EXERCISE 8 OF 89
Groove D
87 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART P
PART R
PART AB
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAKPREAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 15
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lebrontron on drums

236 bars, 12:34, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
12:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-60, toms through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-79 and 101-115 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------x-----|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Lebrontron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 132, 134, 136, 140, 152 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- P, AK -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-80 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lebrontron?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lebrontron hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 12:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 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 Lebrontron?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 132, 134, 136, 140, 152 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED