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Leeloo · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART R
PART S8
OUTRO
9 groovesMES8KR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leeloo on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-52, toms through bars 53-77, snare through bars 78-85, silence through bars 86-89 and snare through bars 90-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-39, 42-43 and 46-47, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x------g|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xx-x---x-x---xx-|x---x-x---xx-x--|
Leeloo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- M, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-85 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Leeloo?

150 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 Leeloo hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Leeloo?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED