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Jarhead Fertilizer v2 · Dystopia

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove AZ -- Outro 2
17 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jarhead Fertilizer v2 on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, snare through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55 and snare through bars 56-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32                               33
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-----------x---------------|----------------x-------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|x---x-------x-------x-----------|
Jarhead Fertilizer v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED