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Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 12 OF 92
Groove F
89 / 307 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART G
BREAK 6
PART AB
PART AO
29 groovesEAOWS17S+24Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out on drums

307 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
10:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34 and snare through bars 35-40, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 238-241, 246-251 and 260-262, and 6 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    238
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 40, 114, 152 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- AO, W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out?

120 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 Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

307 bars, about 10:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Jumpsuit/Midwest Indigo/Stressed Out?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 40, 114, 152 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 307 BARS ANALYSED