Don't start now · Dua Lipa

92 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DON'T START NOW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-11.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGUKN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't start now?

124 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 Don't start now hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Don't start now?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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