Just Don't Stop · Bread Things

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JUST DON'T STOP · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGJMS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Don't Stop?

130 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 Just Don't Stop hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Just Don't Stop?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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