Stop Draggin' My Heart Around · Stevie Nicks

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-14 and 17-23, and 23 more places -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 26, 50, 52, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 2 sections: 88 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-49.

OUTRO
VERSE
2 groovesDSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop Draggin' My Heart Around?

106 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?

45 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?

107 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Draggin' My Heart Around?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 26, 50, 52, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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