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Jolene · Dolly Parton

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jolene on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
32/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 19-35 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-------|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------|
Jolene -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jolene?

82 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 Jolene hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED