Stop Loving You · Toto

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14-16 and 18-28, and 22 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
STOP LOVING YOU · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 36, 44, 64, 68 and 13 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 86 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-35.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFEAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop Loving You?

102 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 Loving You hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Loving You?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 36, 44, 64, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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