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Jegama · Decongruence

Jegama · Decongruence
EXERCISE 9 OF 81
Groove A -- Part A
50 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
PART H
PART K
PART AC
PART Y
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
19 groovesAAKHYS25+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jegama on drums

171 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-109, 129-135 and 137-142 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Jegama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 44, 48 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 6-17 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jegama?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jegama hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Jegama?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 44, 48 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED