In A Jar · Dinosaur Jr.

131 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 49 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
IN A JAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 17 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 4 sections: 100 keep time, 23 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-110.

CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBKQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In A Jar?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In A Jar 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In A Jar?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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