Where The Light Leaves · Varials

98 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51 and 53-57 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WHERE THE LIGHT LEAVES · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 54, 56, 62 and 3 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 32 keep time, 9 are fills, 18 are stops and 32 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART I
PART P
PART T
BREAK
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS1ACIS3P+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The Light Leaves?

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

Is Where The Light Leaves hard to play on drums?

56 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Where The Light Leaves?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 54, 56, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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