You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon · American Football

109 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 9-11 and 14-15, and 11 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
YOU KNOW I SHOULD BE LEAVING SOON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 29, 74, 86, 108 and 109.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 108-109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-48.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART H
PART L
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDGHL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Know I Should Be Leaving Soon hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 29, 74, 86, 108 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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