Please Stop Loving Me · Madmans Esprit

77 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 26-27 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PLEASE STOP LOVING ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 25 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 17-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 19 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesHS5S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Please Stop Loving Me?

100 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Please Stop Loving Me hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Please Stop Loving Me?

6 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 25 more.

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