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Leave The Door Open · Silk Sonic

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 44 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leave The Door Open on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43, toms through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-58 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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