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Jessica · The Allman Brothers Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIORS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jessica on drums

187 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 18-25 and 34-40, and 2 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
T2 |------xx------xx|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Jessica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 160-187 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jessica?

104 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 Jessica hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jessica?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED