Jabberwocky · Cojum Dip

174 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-20 and 31-38 -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
JABBERWOCKY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 19 sections: 90 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-115.

CHORUS
PART L
PART AE
PART L
PART AL
PART S15
PART AT
PART AU
OUTRO
15 groovesGS15LEAU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jabberwocky?

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

Is Jabberwocky hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jabberwocky?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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