Jet Pilot · System of a Down

100 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 31-38 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
JET PILOT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 64 and 92.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 24 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jet Pilot?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jet Pilot hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jet Pilot?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 64 and 92.

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