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God Don't Leave Me Alone · The Bursthead

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS4S2S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Don't Leave Me Alone on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-88, silence through bars 89-95, snare through bars 96-99, silence through bars 100-101 and snare through bars 102-141, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|
God Don't Leave Me Alone -- 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 8 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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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