Only When You Leave · Spandau Ballet

156 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-10 and 16, and 13 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
ONLY WHEN YOU LEAVE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 50, 77 and 132.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 11 sections: 138 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-105.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
5 groovesCFIEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only When You Leave?

137 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 Only When You Leave hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Only When You Leave?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 50, 77 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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