Jelaga · Aftercoma

177 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 9 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
JELAGA · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 41 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 19 sections: 84 keep time, 47 are fills, 19 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-80.

PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AK
OUTRO
14 groovesLAPAAKC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jelaga?

160 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 Jelaga hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jelaga?

26 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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