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EXERCISE 25 OF 59
Run E2 · Part E (bars 20-24)
60 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHOEVB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play London Leatherboys on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-67, hi-hat through bars 68-79, toms through bars 80-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 15.3% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x--x--x-----o-----x-----x--x--x-----x--x--|
SD |------------x-----x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
London Leatherboys -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 20, 28, 31 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is London Leatherboys?

100 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 London Leatherboys hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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 London Leatherboys?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 20, 28, 31 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED