Jealous Guy · John Lennon

54 bars, 3:09, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 14-15 and 17, and 6 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 66 BPM
JEALOUS GUY · BAR 20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 28, 34, 44, 46, 48 and 1 more.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 4 sections: 38 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jealous Guy?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Jealous Guy 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jealous Guy?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 28, 34, 44, 46, 48 and 1 more.

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