Jill · Rowanexen

49 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 228 BPM, 1:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13 and 15-17 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
JILL · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18 and 8 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART N
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS8AGKQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jill?

228 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Jill hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jill?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 49 BARS ANALYSED
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