Jolene · Miley Cyrus acustic

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 15-23 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 74.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
JOLENE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 2 sections: 73 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-75.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jolene?

100 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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