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Leverage · Bleed The Sky

Leverage · Bleed The Sky
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART B
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFBACAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leverage on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, silence through bars 41-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-36 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-47 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-67 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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