Gator Jungle · Dirty Octopus

163 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 12 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GATOR JUNGLE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 22, 25 and 22 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 19 sections: 104 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-141.

PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART AA
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART AR
PART I
PART AA
11 groovesBAANEAR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gator Jungle?

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 Gator Jungle hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Gator Jungle?

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 22, 25 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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