Jammin' · Bob Marley

103 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 64.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
JAMMIN' · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 55.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 96 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-103.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jammin'?

122 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 Jammin' hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jammin'?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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