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john sykes - please dont leave me · John Sykes

EXERCISE 13 OF 42
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 52-54)
112 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGS1JE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play john sykes - please dont leave me on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 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
153
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-90, ride through bars 91-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-36, 39-45 and 51-52, and 5 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
john sykes - please dont leave me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 37, 53, 61, 69, 77, 97 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 37-117 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-54 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-92 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-110 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-149 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is john sykes - please dont leave me?

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 john sykes - please dont leave me hard to play on drums?

46 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?

153 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 john sykes - please dont leave me?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 37, 53, 61, 69, 77, 97 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED