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Jaws · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 13 OF 82
Groove F -- Part F
77 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
PART H
PART S23
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesDHAS23S+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jaws on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, silence through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-26, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 18 and 21, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------------x-|
Jaws -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 83 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-22 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-38 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 37-61 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jaws?

138 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 Jaws 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jaws?

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 83 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED