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Jimmy · Tool

EXERCISE 19 OF 91
Join Part M to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
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0 / 91 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
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
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jimmy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-74 and ride through bars 75-86, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19                                   20
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
HH |x-----x-----x--x--x-----o-----x-----|x-----x-----x--x--x-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----------|------x-----------x-----x-----------|
Jimmy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- F, BI -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-155 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-66 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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