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jaws · Sleeptoken
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play jaws on drums

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.

57 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
160
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-52, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
jaws -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 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 24 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 -- B, R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part R and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-91 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-128 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 1 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?

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