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Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll · Arclite

EXERCISE 27 OF 62
Groove P -- Part P
59 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART R
PART T
PART V
PART W
17 groovesCVDPR+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-50, silence through bars 51-54, snare through bars 55-82, hi-hat through bars 83-102 and snare through bars 103-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12 and 37-43 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 54, 58, 62, 74, 78, 94 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-50 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-56 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Even Jesus Loves Rock N' Roll?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 54, 58, 62, 74, 78, 94 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED