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Just Don't Stop · Bread Things

Just Don't Stop · Bread Things
EXERCISE 27 OF 38
Groove M -- Part M
80 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Don't Stop on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-73, silence through bars 74-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-97.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Just Don't Stop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 61-97 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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