Stop The Clocks · Donots

131 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-46, 71-85 and 91-99, and 1 more place -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
STOP THE CLOCKS · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 86, 87, 88, 90 and 100.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 86-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 6 sections: 111 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-29.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop The Clocks?

132 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 The Clocks hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Clocks?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 86, 87, 88, 90 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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