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Leaving Me Alone · 870621345

EXERCISE 10 OF 32
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 35-37)
63 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIBQSS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leaving Me Alone on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50, snare through bars 51-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 41 and 43, and 4 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------------x-----------|
Leaving Me Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 27, 49, 50 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-74 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leaving Me Alone?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Leaving Me Alone hard to play on drums?

63 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Leaving Me Alone?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 27, 49, 50 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED