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Left Behind · The Plot In You

Left Behind · The Plot In You
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove B -- Intro
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART Y
OUTRO
12 groovesBYGMS11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Left Behind on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-14, silence through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22 and toms through bars 23-29, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 31-36 and 39-41, and 8 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 30, 37, 38, 42, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-43 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S11 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y and the Break 5 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 6 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Left Behind?

150 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 Behind hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Left Behind?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 30, 37, 38, 42, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED