TOMMY TUTONE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 867-5309/Jenny

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-53 and 55-74, and 2 more places -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 138 BPM
867-5309/JENNY · BAR 5

It is played on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 48 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 104 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 104, 121 and 138 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does 867-5309/Jenny use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 138 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 93.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-23, 25-53, 55-74 and 76, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in 867-5309/Jenny hard?

32 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED