Stop draggin' my heart around · Stevie Nicks

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-19 and 22-23, and 15 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 24, 26, 44, 48 and 13 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time, 19 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGFAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop draggin' my heart around?

107 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 draggin' my heart around hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 draggin' my heart around?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 24, 26, 44, 48 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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