Jumpin Jack Flash · Johnny Winter

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-53, 55 and 80-82, and 8 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
JUMPIN JACK FLASH · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 24, 25, 26, 30, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 6 sections: 105 keep time, 20 are fills, 21 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-134.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLCS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jumpin Jack Flash?

140 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 Jumpin Jack Flash hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jumpin Jack Flash?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 24, 25, 26, 30, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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