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When The Levee Breaks · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 13-15)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Levee Breaks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-54, ride through bars 55-63, hi-hat through bars 64-94 and ride through bars 95-106.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
When The Levee Breaks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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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