Stop Calling · Willy Rodriguez

113 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 4 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 179 BPM
STOP CALLING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 33, 44, 57, 80 and 4 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 108-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 79 keep time, 10 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHBOL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop Calling?

179 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stop Calling 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stop Calling?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 33, 44, 57, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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