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Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) · Paramore

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove E
84 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesBDHXAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) on drums

144 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-36, snare through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-77, snare through bars 78-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 37-43 and 78-93, and 1 more place -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 36, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-37 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-78 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-96 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) hard to play on drums?

62 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 This Song (Lovesick Melody)?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 36, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED