50 Ways To Leave Your Lover · Paul Simon

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-21, 38-56 and 73-82 -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 76 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover?

105 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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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