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Hit The Road, Jack · Beyond Silence

Hit The Road, Jack · Beyond Silence
EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Groove A -- Part A
51 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit The Road, Jack on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15-24, and 2 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Hit The Road, Jack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hit The Road, Jack?

135 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 Hit The Road, Jack hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED