Leave It Alone · BLACKTOP MOJO

61 bars, 3:52, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 16-24 and 44-61 -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 63 BPM
LEAVE IT ALONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 31, 32, 33, 39 and 41.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave It Alone?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Leave It Alone hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Alone?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 31, 32, 33, 39 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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