Leave Me Alone · New Order

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10 and 13-137 -- 90.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LEAVE ME ALONE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 2 sections: 148 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-137.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave Me Alone?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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