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Jaded · Imminence

EXERCISE 7 OF 50
Fill at bar 12, 20, 53 and 2 more (a small one)
90 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART K
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEBKQAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jaded on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-x-xxx-|
Jaded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 40, 53, 57 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-116 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jaded?

150 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?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jaded?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 40, 53, 57 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED