Jimmy · Tool

208 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 5:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 22-23 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
JIMMY · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 42, 43, 45, 47, 83, 93 and 23 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 19 sections: 129 keep time, 29 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-41.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART C
PART AK
PART AR
PART O
OUTRO
15 groovesFCBIOAX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jimmy?

125 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Jimmy hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 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 Jimmy?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 42, 43, 45, 47, 83, 93 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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