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.

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

TEMPO

108 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

104

LENGTH

3:51

DIFFICULTY

49/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-59, toms through bars 60-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-104.

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.