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Jefferson Starship · Jane (Studio)

Jefferson Starship · Jane (Studio)
EXERCISE 6 OF 59
Groove D
45 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, PART X
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEIXAGB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jefferson Starship on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, snare through bars 65-66, toms through bars 67-74 and ride through bars 75-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 14 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 32, 43, 44 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, AG -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-91 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jefferson Starship?

116 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 Jefferson Starship hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jefferson Starship?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 32, 43, 44 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED