Leave It Alone · NOFX

103 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 240 BPM
LEAVE IT ALONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 88.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills, 10 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS2FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave It Alone?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Leave It Alone hard to play on drums?

56 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 88.

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