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Leave It Alone · NOFX

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave It Alone on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-36, hi-hat through bars 37-70, ride through bars 71-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-103.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED