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Ja Sum Ti Prijatel · Area

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ja Sum Ti Prijatel on drums

95 bars, 5:04, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-30, 44-51 and 61-92 -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |xxxx--xxx-x-xxx-|
HH |x-xxx---o---xxx-|
SD |----xx------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Ja Sum Ti Prijatel -- 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 12 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-56 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ja Sum Ti Prijatel?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ja Sum Ti Prijatel hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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