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Jet Airliner · Steve Miller

Jet Airliner · Steve Miller
EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Groove E -- Part E
94 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jet Airliner on drums

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

61 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
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Jet Airliner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-51 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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