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Gonna Leave You · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove H -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gonna Leave You on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-33, toms through bars 34-42, ride through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Gonna Leave You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-35 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-70 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-86 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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