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Jaded · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jaded on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, toms through bars 34-47, hi-hat through bars 48-57 and toms through bars 58-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-10 and 12-22, and 6 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----f-----f-----|
T1 |--------------x-|
FT |--------------x-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |--x-------------|
Jaded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 55, 59, 90, 94 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-70 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jaded?

118 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 Jaded hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Jaded?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 55, 59, 90, 94 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED