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Leave It Alone · BLACKTOP MOJO

Leave It Alone · BLACKTOP MOJO
EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove E -- Part E
40 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave It Alone on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41 and snare through bars 42-61.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |ggggXgggggggXggg|
BD |x-----x---------|
Leave It Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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