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Leave That Thing Alone · Rush

EXERCISE 14 OF 55
Groove I -- Part I
53 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
PART E
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART X
PART Z
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesJEPIB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave That Thing Alone on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-41, ride through bars 42-92, hi-hat through bars 93-115 and silence through bars 116-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x---x-|
Leave That Thing Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-51 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leave That Thing Alone?

120 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 That Thing Alone hard to play on drums?

57 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?

118 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 That Thing Alone?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED