Leaving Me Now · Level 42

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 16-19 and 26-31, and 4 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
LEAVING ME NOW · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-61.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leaving Me Now?

83 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 Leaving Me Now hard to play on drums?

40 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Leaving Me Now?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

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