Drops Of Jupiter · Train

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 53-56 and 60, and 1 more place -- 14% 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 · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-18.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICNSS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drops Of Jupiter?

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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drops Of Jupiter?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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