You're The Reason I'm Leaving · Franz Ferdinand

109 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-23, 30-37 and 86-93 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
YOU'RE THE REASON I'M LEAVING · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 29, 46, 47, 53, 59 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 59-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEIOB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You're The Reason I'm Leaving?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You're The Reason I'm Leaving hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 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're The Reason I'm Leaving?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 29, 46, 47, 53, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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