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Jane · Jefferson Starship

Jane · Jefferson Starship
EXERCISE 16 OF 55
Groove K
66 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART P
PART F
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGFJPV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jane on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-66, toms through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-93 and silence through bars 94-99, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 11 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 24, 60, 63 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-74 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-89 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jane?

116 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 Jane hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jane?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 24, 60, 63 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED