Leech · Northlane

171 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 39-40 and 43-44, and 5 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LEECH · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 21-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 16 sections: 98 keep time, 46 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AS
PART BA
PART D
OUTRO 2
11 groovesUJDBAAL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leech?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Leech hard to play on drums?

57 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Leech?

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

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