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Jerry Was A Race Car Driver · Primus

EXERCISE 12 OF 55
Groove H
47 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
8 groovesFJNTAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jerry Was A Race Car Driver on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 3-21, ride through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and snare through bars 45-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 25-26 and 41-43, and 8 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-------|
BD |x-----xx------------x---------xx|
Jerry Was A Race Car Driver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-61 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jerry Was A Race Car Driver?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Was A Race Car Driver hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jerry Was A Race Car Driver?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED