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Stolen · Dashboard Confessional

EXERCISE 13 OF 43
Groove G -- Part G
50 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEDAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stolen on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, ride through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 50-57 -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|
Stolen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 33, 41, 45, 64, 65 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, E, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-28 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-53 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stolen?

88 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 Stolen hard to play on drums?

45 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stolen?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 33, 41, 45, 64, 65 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED