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You Can Leave Your Hat On. · Joe Cocker

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Can Leave Your Hat On. on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
You Can Leave Your Hat On. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-77 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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