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Jerry's Breakdown · Chet Atkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jerry's Breakdown on drums

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

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 2-65.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Jerry's Breakdown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED