Big Jet Plane · Angus And Julia Stone

76 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 17 and 21, and 7 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BIG JET PLANE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 1 is a fill, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Jet Plane?

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 Big Jet Plane hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Big Jet Plane?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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