Leverage · Bleed The Sky

161 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
LEVERAGE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 28 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 19 sections: 96 keep time, 34 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-121.

PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART B
PART AO
OUTRO
12 groovesFBACAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leverage?

178 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 Leverage hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Leverage?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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