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Jelaga · Aftercoma

Jelaga · Aftercoma
EXERCISE 21 OF 94
3-bar fill at bar 14
74 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jelaga on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and snare through bars 45-61, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|
Jelaga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 41 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-109 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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