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Jetpack · Fleshwater

EXERCISE 28 OF 64
Run R1 · Chorus (bars 20-41)
58 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AD
PART AA
PART AJ
PART AL
BREAK 3
10 groovesREAJADS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jetpack on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 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
111
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-42, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 29-32 and 34 -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |----x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-|
Jetpack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- R, Y -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-64 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AJ -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jetpack?

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 Jetpack hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Jetpack?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED