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I Just Wanna Stop · Gino Vannelli

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Just Wanna Stop on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 2-36, toms through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-63, ride through bars 64-67, hi-hat through bars 68-72 and toms through bars 73-75, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-109 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-47 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-60 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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