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Jessie's Girl · Rick Springfield

Jessie's Girl · Rick Springfield
EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Groove K -- Part K
79 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K, CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
6 groovesCAEQK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jessie's Girl on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-34, toms through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-66 and toms through bars 67-75, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11 and 27-33 -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-X-x-x-x-X-x-|
Jessie's Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 41, 47, 55, 77, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-48 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 62-79 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-99 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jessie's Girl?

133 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 Jessie's Girl hard to play on drums?

56 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 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Jessie's Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 41, 47, 55, 77, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED