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Don't Stop Me Now · Queen

EXERCISE 23 OF 25
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 99-101)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFMS1JS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stop Me Now on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-80, ride through bars 81-100, hi-hat through bars 101-113 and kick and crashes through bars 114-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 23-26 and 28-34, and 7 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Don't Stop Me Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 51, 79 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Stop Me Now?

90 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 Stop Me Now hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Stop Me Now?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 51, 79 and 80.

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