No Leaf Clover · Metallica

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27-28, and 5 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
NO LEAF CLOVER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 19, 22, 29, 40, 50, 54 and 26 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 47 keep time, 32 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-49.

BREAK 2
PART E
PART G
PART C
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZGCS4X+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Leaf Clover?

77 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 No Leaf Clover hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 No Leaf Clover?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 19, 22, 29, 40, 50, 54 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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