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EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jaws Theme Swimming on drums

202 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 4:18 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-168, snare through bars 169-176 and hi-hat through bars 177-202.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-31, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10           11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x---------g-|
BD |x---------x-|------------|
HF |x-----------|------------|
Jaws Theme Swimming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 97, 121, 129, 137, 171 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 58-149 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jaws Theme Swimming?

141 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Theme Swimming hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Theme Swimming?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 97, 121, 129, 137, 171 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED