I Just Wanna Stop · Gino Vannelli

123 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 7 and 10-12, and 14 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
I JUST WANNA STOP · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 36, 37, 38, 45, 46 and 17 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 23 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCABAQH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Wanna Stop?

145 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 I Just Wanna Stop hard to play on drums?

46 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Just Wanna Stop?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 36, 37, 38, 45, 46 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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