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Levitate (Full) · Bleed From Within

EXERCISE 16 OF 82
Groove J -- Part J
66 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART J, PART U
PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART U
PART J
PART AB
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKUJAEF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Levitate (Full) on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-38, toms through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64 and snare through bars 65-70, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 36 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
Levitate (Full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 39, 40, 66, 69, 77 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- K, U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 24-35 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Levitate (Full)?

150 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 Levitate (Full) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

153 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Levitate (Full)?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 39, 40, 66, 69, 77 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED