Jersey Giant · Sam Barber

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-89 -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
JERSEY GIANT · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 4 sections: 84 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-89.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jersey Giant?

100 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 Jersey Giant hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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