Leave Before You Love Me · Marshmello x Jonas Brothers

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 2 sections: 72 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-76.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave Before You Love 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 Leave Before You Love Me hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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