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Jibboom · Steve Vai

EXERCISE 16 OF 75
Groove N -- Part N
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART P
PART AA
PART S14
PART AV
PART N
PART BQ
18 groovesBPAVBQAA+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jibboom on drums

147 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 2-144 and silence through bars 145-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Jibboom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 61, 65, 81 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-27 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jibboom?

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

Is Jibboom hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 24 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 Jibboom?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 61, 65, 81 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED