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Leave All The Lights On · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesIQOBC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave All The Lights On on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:29 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
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 3-13, toms through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30, toms through bars 31-34, snare through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Leave All The Lights On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-19 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-69 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-44 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-98 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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