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Ticks & Leeches · Tool

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Groove C -- Part C
29 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesS12GANW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ticks & Leeches on drums

145 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 6:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

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 66-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 5-12 -- 15.1% 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 |---X-g-g-g-g--X--X-g-g-g-x--|
FT |X---g-X---g-X-X-g-g-X-g---xx|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-----x-------|
Ticks & Leeches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 39, 41, 49 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-26 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ticks & Leeches?

160 BPM, in 7/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ticks & Leeches hard to play on drums?

64 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 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 & Leeches?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 39, 41, 49 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED