John Deere Green · Joe Diffie

146 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-35, 61-75 and 81-90, and 4 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JOHN DEERE GREEN · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 59, 92, 98, 120, 133 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time, 7 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-75.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFEBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is John Deere Green?

130 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 John Deere Green hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in John Deere Green?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 59, 92, 98, 120, 133 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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