Jammin' Me · Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

120 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-24 and 26-48, and 5 more places -- 90% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
JAMMIN' ME · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 49, 69, 73, 88 and 106.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 2 sections: 113 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jammin' Me?

123 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' Me 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?

120 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Jammin' Me?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 49, 69, 73, 88 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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