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John Deere Green · Joe Diffie

John Deere Green · Joe Diffie
EXERCISE 25 OF 32
Groove J -- Outro
139 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFEBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play John Deere Green on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-146.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
John Deere Green -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 114-146 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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