Leave It All Behind · Cult To Follow

107 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 32-39 and 54-61, and 6 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 96, 98 and 100.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 6 are fills, 34 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

PART C
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFADC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave It All Behind?

115 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 It All Behind hard to play on drums?

41 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 It All Behind?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 96, 98 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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