Jack-A-Roe · Grateful Dead

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 37-38 and 40-42, and 8 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
JACK-A-ROE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 87 and 119.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 9 sections: 107 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-85.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBCFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jack-A-Roe?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Jack-A-Roe hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jack-A-Roe?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 87 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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