Dr. Jones · Guardian

10 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
DR. JONES · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 10.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars across 2 sections: 7 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dr. Jones?

112 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 Dr. Jones hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dr. Jones?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 10.

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