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Ticks and Leeches · Tool

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 38 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS10AGCO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ticks and Leeches on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, ride through bars 62-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
SD |--------r---------------r---|
T1 |--g--g-g-ggg----g--g-ggg-ggg|
FT |x--x--x-----x-x--x--x-------|
BD |x--x--x-----x-x--x--x-------|
Ticks and Leeches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-42 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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