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Gator Jungle · Dirty Octopus

Gator Jungle · Dirty Octopus
EXERCISE 30 OF 82
Groove Z
86 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART AA
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART AA
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART AR
PART I
PART N
PART AA
11 groovesBAANEAR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gator Jungle on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-45, ride through bars 46-61, snare through bars 62-83, toms through bars 84-88 and ride through bars 89-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------x---x-------x-------x-----------|
Gator Jungle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- B, AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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