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Leave Me Alone · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesDGELJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave Me Alone on drums

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

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-142.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Leave Me Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-109 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 106-120 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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