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Jaws + · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART E, CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAYAXBED+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jaws + on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 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
168
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, snare through bars 41-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13 and 15-17, and 1 more place -- 4.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxx-x-xxx-xxx-x-|x-xxx-x-xxx-x-x-|
HH |--x-----x---x---|----x---x-x-----|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-------------|
Jaws + -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 86 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-91 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AX -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 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?

60 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 +?

8 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 86 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED