50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Complete) · Paul Simon

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-6, 8-14 and 16-32, and 4 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (COMPLETE) · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 86 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Complete)?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Complete) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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