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Just Like Jesse James · Cher

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove E -- Outro 2
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Like Jesse James on drums

72 bars, 4:10, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-x-x-x-xxo-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---xx--x---|
Just Like Jesse James -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-35 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Like Jesse James?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Just Like Jesse James hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Like Jesse James?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED