If I Leave · Mitski

74 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 2:51 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 79.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
IF I LEAVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 48, 50, 52 and 74.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 3 sections: 67 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-45.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Leave?

78 BPM, in 3/4, 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 If I Leave 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 If I Leave?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 48, 50, 52 and 74.

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