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Stop The Clocks · Donots

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop The Clocks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, ride through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-70, ride through bars 71-86 and snare through bars 87-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-------|
Stop The Clocks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-91 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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