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Let Me Go · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 17 OF 20
2-bar fill at bar 83
79 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let Me Go on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HH |---x--x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Let Me Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-29 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Let Me Go?

92 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 Let Me Go hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Let Me Go?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED