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Jesse · Geese

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove K -- Chorus
20 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDBRJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesse on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, snare through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-11 and 56 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Jesse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesse?

85 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 Jesse hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Jesse?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED