Leaving On A Jet Plane · John Denver

113 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-37, 40-88 and 90-113 -- 80.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 102 keep time, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-88.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCAS1S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leaving On A Jet Plane?

110 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 On A Jet Plane hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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