Jet Fuel · Mac Miller

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-38, 40-47 and 57-74, and 4 more places -- 89.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JET FUEL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 136 and 137.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 136-137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 12 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1S3S8A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jet Fuel?

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 Fuel hard to play on drums?

29 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Jet Fuel?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 136 and 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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