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"Jessie" · Couch

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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0 / 50 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S14
PART I
PART M
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEDFIS14+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Jessie" on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-73, snare through bars 74-75, hi-hat through bars 76-90 and silence through bars 91-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 34-40 and 42-45, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
"Jessie" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 81, 89, 124, 125 and 129.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-11 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-29 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-108 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-50 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-70 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Jessie"?

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 "Jessie" hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 "Jessie"?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 81, 89, 124, 125 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED