When The Levee Breaks · A Perfect Circle

106 bars, 5:48, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 16-17, and 17 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 47 and 48.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 5 sections: 96 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-46.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Levee Breaks?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is When The Levee Breaks hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 When The Levee Breaks?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 47 and 48.

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