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Drops Of Jupiter · Train

EXERCISE 33 OF 36
Run S1 · Outro (bars 46-52)
54 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drops Of Jupiter on drums

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.

54 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
64
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, silence through bars 41-44, ride through bars 45-52 and snare through bars 53-64.

The beat

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Drops Of Jupiter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-53 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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