Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Acoustic Version) · Paul Simon

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 24 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (ACOUSTIC VERSION) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 78 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-80.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Acoustic Version)?

100 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 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Acoustic Version) hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 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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