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Jump · Van Halen

EXERCISE 28 OF 56
Groove AH -- Part AH
96 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AH, PART AL
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AL
OUTRO
8 groovesFLAAHAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jump on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Jump -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AH -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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