Jet Airliner · Steve Miller

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 17-18 and 35-45, and 8 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JET AIRLINER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 27, 29, 31, 47 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 14 sections: 100 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-46.

CHORUS
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jet Airliner?

120 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 Jet Airliner hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jet Airliner?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 27, 29, 31, 47 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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