Josie · Steely Dan

115 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 16 and 18-20, and 15 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
JOSIE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 24, 39, 40, 41, 53 and 3 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-101.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBMRF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Josie?

116 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 Josie hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Josie?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 24, 39, 40, 41, 53 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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