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Leviathan · Crossfaith

Leviathan · Crossfaith
EXERCISE 31 OF 68
Join Part K to Part U (bars 93-95)
143 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART U
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AA
PART S11
PART A
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIKAS11S13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leviathan on drums

231 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 45-52 and 99-105, and 2 more places -- 20.7% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Leviathan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 19, 28, 36, 44, 69 and 24 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-45 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-99 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leviathan?

209 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 Leviathan hard to play on drums?

53 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 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 Leviathan?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 11, 19, 28, 36, 44, 69 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED