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EXERCISE 21 OF 37
Groove T -- Part T
49 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where The Light Leaves on drums

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.

56 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
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-30, snare through bars 31-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35, snare through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53                                               54
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------x--------x--------x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x--------x--------x-----|
FT |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----x--------x--x-----------------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Where The Light Leaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC, AE -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-37 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-82 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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