Let me go · otuka

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:04 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-12 and 14-31, and 2 more places -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
LET ME GO · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 50
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let me go?

97 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?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Let me go?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

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