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Jack And Diane · John Cougar Mellencamp

EXERCISE 10 OF 21
2-bar fill at bar 70
110 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jack And Diane on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 1-69, toms through bars 70-71, hi-hat through bars 72-83 and snare through bars 84-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 37-52 and 61-69, and 1 more place -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 71 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 68-87 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jack And Diane?

105 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 And Diane hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jack And Diane?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 71 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED