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Levitate · Hollywood Undead

EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Groove K -- Outro
87 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKS5GI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Levitate on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, silence through bars 73-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Levitate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 56, 64, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 85-103 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Levitate?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Levitate?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 56, 64, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED