Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) · Train

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 26-29 and 47-48, and 1 more place -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DROPS OF JUPITER (TELL ME) · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 25, 33, 37 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHPJN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)?

80 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 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) hard to play on drums?

59 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 25, 33, 37 and 4 more.

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