Stop Beating on My Heart · Tigercub

129 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 23 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
STOP BEATING ON MY HEART · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 76, 80, 84, 88, 96 and 5 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 11 are fills, 17 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECAKS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop Beating on My Heart?

138 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 Stop Beating on My Heart hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stop Beating on My Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 76, 80, 84, 88, 96 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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