Jerry's Breakdown · Chet Atkins

65 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-11 and 13, and 4 more places -- 82.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
JERRY'S BREAKDOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-64.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jerry's Breakdown?

134 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 Jerry's Breakdown hard to play on drums?

62 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Jerry's Breakdown?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

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