Left And Right · Charlie Puth

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 21-23 and 27-35, and 4 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
LEFT AND RIGHT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 64.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 61-64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 4 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS1S9S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Left And Right?

101 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 Left And Right hard to play on drums?

37 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Left And Right?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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