You Can Leave Your Hat On. · Joe Cocker

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 29 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON. · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 25, 43, 61 and 76.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 3 sections: 84 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Can Leave Your Hat On.?

87 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 You Can Leave Your Hat On. hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in You Can Leave Your Hat On.?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 25, 43, 61 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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