Leave The Door Open · Silk Sonic

74 bars, 4:02, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 22, 23 and 20 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time, 26 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART E
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFWAEEAI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave The Door Open?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Leave The Door Open hard to play on drums?

52 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Door Open?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 22, 23 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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