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Please Stop Loving Me · Madmans Esprit

Please Stop Loving Me · Madmans Esprit
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesHS5S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Please Stop Loving Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, snare through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |o---x-x-g---x---x---x---o---x---x---x---x-x-g---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---x-------x-----------x---|
Please Stop Loving Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED