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jk · primate
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART A
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS9LADO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play jk on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-45, snare through bars 46-58, hi-hat through bars 59-65, silence through bars 66-161 and hi-hat through bars 162-172.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-40 and 167-171, and 1 more place -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x-x---x-x-----|--x-x---x-x-----|
HH |------o-----o-o-|o-----o-----o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxx-----x-|x-xx--x---xx-xx-|
jk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-50 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-65 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is jk?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 jk hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED