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If I Leave · Mitski

EXERCISE 10 OF 19
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
71 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Leave on drums

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.

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
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-------|
If I Leave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED