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No Leaf Clover · Metallica

EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove C -- Part C
13 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G, PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Leaf Clover on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, silence through bars 8-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36, silence through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-73 and toms through bars 74-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-----------|
HH |------o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-xx--x-|
No Leaf Clover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-41 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Break 4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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