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Jesus Just Left Chicago · ZZ Top

EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Fill at bar 37
46 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesHS7LCB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus Just Left Chicago on drums

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-12, ride through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37, ride through bars 38-47 and silence through bars 48-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-23 and 43-47 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Jesus Just Left Chicago -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-32 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus Just Left Chicago?

120 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 Jesus Just Left Chicago hard to play on drums?

55 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?

69 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Jesus Just Left Chicago?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED