ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leszek Żukowski on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:49 of playing, 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: 98 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 167
LENGTH: 6:49
DIFFICULTY: 59/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-58, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-19, 21-23 and 25, and 7 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                               12
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|------------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|------------x---x-----x---------|

Leszek Żukowski -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 72, 80, 88, 92, 94 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F, O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Leszek Żukowski?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Leszek Żukowski 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 6:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 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 Leszek Żukowski?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 72, 80, 88, 92, 94 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED