Jarhead Fertilizer v2 · Dystopia

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-35, 40 and 42, and 2 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
JARHEAD FERTILIZER V2 · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 28 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time, 34 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Z
PART U
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMZAS7AQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jarhead Fertilizer v2?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Jarhead Fertilizer v2 hard to play on drums?

64 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Jarhead Fertilizer v2?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 28 more.

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