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You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon · American Football

EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Join Intro to Part D (bars 7-9)
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INTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
88/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48, ride through bars 49-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-109.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------------x--------|
BD |x--------x-----------x-----------x--|
You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-24 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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