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Stop Calling · Willy Rodriguez

Stop Calling · Willy Rodriguez
EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove C
78 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop Calling on drums

113 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81 and snare through bars 82-113.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Stop Calling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 33, 44, 57, 80 and 4 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-93 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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