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Jessie · Couch

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove C -- Part C
47 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesES10CHA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jessie on drums

122 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 123 BPM, 5:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11-18 and 28-35, and 6 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
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

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 20, 68, 77 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-83 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jessie?

123 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Jessie hard to play on drums?

35 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 Jessie?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 20, 68, 77 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED