Jonny On The Spot · Texas Is The Reason

154 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 22-24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
JONNY ON THE SPOT · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 109, 117, 125, 133, 151, 152 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 151-153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 15 sections: 127 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-41.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART P
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFPBNM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jonny On The Spot?

150 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 Jonny On The Spot hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jonny On The Spot?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 109, 117, 125, 133, 151, 152 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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