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Stop Beating on My Heart · Tigercub

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECAKS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop Beating on My Heart on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57, toms through bars 58-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Stop Beating on My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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