jaws · Sleeptoken

160 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
JAWS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 24-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 46-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 73-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 18 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 43 keep time, 92 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AW
OUTRO 2
10 groovesARBAWS13+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

57 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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