ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jill on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 228 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 49
LENGTH: 1:11
DIFFICULTY: 89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-18 and snare through bars 19-49.

The beat

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.

    11                                                       12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......
CC |x-------------------------------------------------------|x-------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|--------x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-----x-x-------x-x-----x-----x-x-------|x-------x-x-----x-----x-x-------x-x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Jill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 27-39 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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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