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Master Blaster (Jammin') · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Groove H
146 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master Blaster (Jammin') on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-159.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-22, and 23 more places -- 81.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4                        5
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x----x---x--x--|
SD |------r-----------r-----|------r-----------r-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Master Blaster (Jammin') -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Master Blaster (Jammin')?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Master Blaster (Jammin') hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED