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Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now · Starship

EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Groove E
84 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-107.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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