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Jack-A-Roe · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 24 OF 29
Run D1 · Verse (bars 103-106)
118 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE
OUTRO
6 groovesBCFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jack-A-Roe on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-85, ride through bars 86-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-120.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Jack-A-Roe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-29 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 97-103 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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