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Jailhouse Rock · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 13 OF 14
Join Part H to Part B (bars 60-62)
102 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jailhouse Rock on drums

109 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-36 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Jailhouse Rock?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jailhouse Rock hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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