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Jigsaw · Discordance Axis

Jigsaw · Discordance Axis
EXERCISE 7 OF 28
Groove E -- Part E
25 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART J
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS8BEIJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jigsaw on drums

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-21, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5 and 10-13 -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o---o---o---o---o-|
SD |------x---x---x---x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-----x-|
Jigsaw -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jigsaw?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Jigsaw hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jigsaw?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED