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Stop draggin' my heart around · Stevie Nicks

EXERCISE 7 OF 44
Groove G -- Chorus
36 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGFAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop draggin' my heart around on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-61, toms through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-109.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 24, 26, 44, 48 and 13 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, AA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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