Jam Back At The Old House · Alternative Competition 6

59 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28 and 46-59 -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
JAM BACK AT THE OLD HOUSE · BARS 23-24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 30.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 45 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-59.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesLES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jam Back At The Old House?

112 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 Jam Back At The Old House 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Jam Back At The Old House?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 30.

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