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Stop Loving You · Toto

EXERCISE 10 OF 38
Groove G
89 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFEAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop Loving You on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
Stop Loving You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-85 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-99 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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