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Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) · Train

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 33 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-45 and ride through bars 46-53, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-47 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-65 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED