Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now · Starship

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockElectronic90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 15 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 26, 53, 79 and 87.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars: 102 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-52.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now?

96 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 Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 26, 53, 79 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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