Stop Draggin' My Heart Around · Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13-14, and 26 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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 17 times: bars 2, 4, 26, 27, 28, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 4 sections: 80 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-49.

CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEGFill 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?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 26, 27, 28, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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