Jerk-Off · Tool

166 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 15 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
JERK-OFF · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 23, 24, 40 and 15 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 15 sections: 119 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-122.

PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AH
PART V
OUTRO
11 groovesSLASVY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jerk-Off?

165 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 Jerk-Off hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 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 Jerk-Off?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 23, 24, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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