Jump · Van Halen

132 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 17-20, and 10 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JUMP · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 32, 33, 34 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 39 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-31.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO
8 groovesFLAAHAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jump?

130 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 Jump hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Jump?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 32, 33, 34 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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