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Stone In Love · Journey

EXERCISE 6 OF 38
Hold Groove A for 8 bars -- Part A (bars 5-12)
77 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART G
OUTRO
8 groovesCGNAY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stone In Love on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-43 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 24.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Stone In Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 48, 55, 56 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-74 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-115 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stone In Love?

120 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 Stone In Love hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Stone In Love?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 48, 55, 56 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED