John The Fisherman · Primus

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 7 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
JOHN THE FISHERMAN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 42 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 43 keep time, 49 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART C
PART G
PART B
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesYAGBQAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is John The Fisherman?

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 John The Fisherman hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 John The Fisherman?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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