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Cant stop · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 17 OF 31
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
82 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDPGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cant stop on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-9, silence through bars 10-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22-27 and 37-40, and 7 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X--g-g--X--g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Cant stop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 52, 56, 59 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cant stop?

92 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 Cant stop hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Cant stop?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 52, 56, 59 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED