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Jailbreak · Thin Lizzy

EXERCISE 27 OF 41
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 84-103)
130 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jailbreak on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-84, toms through bars 85-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 17 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Jailbreak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-102 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jailbreak?

141 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 Jailbreak hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Jailbreak?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED