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Leaving Me Now · Level 42

Leaving Me Now · Level 42
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leaving Me Now on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-25 and snare through bars 26-31, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Leaving Me Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED