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The Leaving Song Pt. II · AFI

EXERCISE 17 OF 37
Groove M -- Part M
48 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART S4
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDMITS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Leaving Song Pt. II on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-31, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 36-38 and 40-42, and 2 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----g--x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xg-gx-|
The Leaving Song Pt. II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-67 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Leaving Song Pt. II?

115 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 The Leaving Song Pt. II hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Leaving Song Pt. II?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED