Leave All The Lights On · A Day To Remember

120 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 26-30 and 36, and 14 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LEAVE ALL THE LIGHTS ON · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 31 and 18 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 14 sections: 76 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
PART M
OUTRO
8 groovesIQOBC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave All The Lights On?

138 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 Leave All The Lights On 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Leave All The Lights On?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 31 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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