Gonna Leave You · Queens Of The Stone Age

99 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 51-57 and 59-65, and 2 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
GONNA LEAVE YOU · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 6 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCFJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gonna Leave You?

143 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 Gonna Leave You hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Gonna Leave You?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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