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Jammer · Dope Smoker

Jammer · Dope Smoker
EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Groove F
89 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jammer on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-47, hi-hat through bars 48-67, ride through bars 68-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-26, 28-33 and 48-49, and 10 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|----x-x---x-----|
Jammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 59, 91, 107, 123 and 139.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jammer?

117 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 Jammer hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Jammer?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 59, 91, 107, 123 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED