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Just Got Paid · ZZ Top

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove E -- Verse
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CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDEAS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Got Paid on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 24-25, and 4 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 19, 31, 77, 85, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-40 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-87 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Got Paid?

100 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 Just Got Paid hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Just Got Paid?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 19, 31, 77, 85, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED