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Josie · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 25 OF 40
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
101 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Josie on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x----x--x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Josie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-72 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 76-106 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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