Ticks and Leeches · Tool

145 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 6:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 5-16 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
TICKS AND LEECHES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33 and 10 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 16 are fills and 71 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS10AGCO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ticks and Leeches?

152 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Ticks and Leeches hard to play on drums?

61 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Ticks and Leeches?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 33 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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