Joker And The Thief · Wolfmother

175 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 45-47 and 49-54, and 4 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
JOKER AND THE THIEF · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 11 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 18 sections: 90 keep time, 17 are fills, 50 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKEDHC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joker And The Thief?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Joker And The Thief hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Joker And The Thief?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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