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Leaving On A Jet Plane · John Denver

Leaving On A Jet Plane · John Denver
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCAS1S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leaving On A Jet Plane on drums

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

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
17/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-20 and snare through bars 21-113.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Leaving On A Jet Plane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED