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Stop · Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJERS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19, snare through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-47 and snare through bars 48-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-30 and 45-58, and 1 more place -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Stop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 64, 68, 72 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-105 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stop?

122 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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stop?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 64, 68, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED