God Don't Leave Me Alone · The Bursthead

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 15-18, and 12 more places -- 85.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GOD DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 7 sections: 124 keep time, 5 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-88.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCS4S2S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Don't Leave Me Alone?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 God Don't Leave Me Alone hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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