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

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Complete) on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-92.

The beat

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.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----------------------------|x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----------------------------|
SD |------g--------g--------------------g-gg--g--g--|------g--------g--------------------------gggg--|
T2 |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--x-----------------------|x--------------------x--x-----------------------|
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Complete) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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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