ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play jabajabajabajbajabjabja on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 139
LENGTH: 3:42
DIFFICULTY: 63/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-13, snare through bars 14-26, toms through bars 27-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-21, 29-35 and 86-92, and 1 more place -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                                               16
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|o-----o-----o-----o-----------------------------|
SD |x-----------x-----x-----------------------------|------------------------x--x--x--x--------------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------------|

jabajabajabajbajabjabja -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 27, 28, 57 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K, AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 10-26 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is jabajabajabajbajabjabja?

150 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 jabajabajabajbajabjabja hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 jabajabajabajbajabjabja?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 27, 28, 57 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED