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Leerzeichen · Silent Collapse

Leerzeichen · Silent Collapse
EXERCISE 21 OF 30
Run S51 · Part S5 (bars 33-42)
46 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEOS5S7C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leerzeichen on drums

71 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-29, snare through bars 30-33, silence through bars 34-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 3 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-------x---x---|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |X-----------xxxx|--------x---x-x-|
Leerzeichen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 30, 31, 32 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-63 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Leerzeichen?

181 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 Leerzeichen hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Leerzeichen?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 30, 31, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED