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In A Jar · Dinosaur Jr.

EXERCISE 21 OF 37
Groove L (a two-bar phrase)
109 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBKQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In A Jar on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-61, ride through bars 62-66 and snare through bars 67-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
In A Jar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-115 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-97 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-100 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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