Leave · Whirr

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 5 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
LEAVE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 49, 65, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time, 12 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leave?

95 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 hard to play on drums?

44 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 49, 65, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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