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Stay · U2

Stay · U2
EXERCISE 15 OF 23
Groove F -- Outro
94 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesAFEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-46, 48-51 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Stay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 79, 95 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-73 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stay?

95 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 Stay hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stay?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 79, 95 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED