Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) · Stevie Nicks

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13, and 21 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
STOP DRAGGIN' MY HEART AROUND (WITH TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 24, 26, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 5 sections: 78 keep time, 16 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

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

Questions

What BPM is Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)?

108 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 (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) hard to play on drums?

49 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?

104 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 (with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers)?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 24, 26, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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