Leave Me Alone · Michael Jackson

142 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25, 37-40 and 46-65, and 7 more places -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
LEAVE ME ALONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 142.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 122 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-95.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesDGELJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave Me Alone?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Me Alone hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Leave Me Alone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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