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Leech · Northlane

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove U -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leech on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-66, snare through bars 67-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-xxxx-xx---x-|
Leech -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- U, V (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-51 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED