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Every Time You Leave · I Prevail

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 21-23)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJBS1C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Time You Leave on drums

62 bars, 3:21, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30 and snare through bars 31-46, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 31-33, and 6 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
Every Time You Leave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 30, 45, 57 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-12 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Every Time You Leave?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Every Time You Leave hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Every Time You Leave?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 30, 45, 57 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED