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The Last Stop · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove H -- Part H
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CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
PART H
PART T
PART D
PART H
PART E
OUTRO
9 groovesBHTED+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Stop on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-87, snare through bars 88-91, hi-hat through bars 92-132 and snare through bars 133-134, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 58-60 and 65-68, and 9 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    146
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Last Stop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 39, 40, 49 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-112 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Stop?

110 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 The Last Stop hard to play on drums?

52 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Last Stop?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 39, 40, 49 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED