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Me and Bobby McGee · Janis Joplin

EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove O -- Part O
52 / 103 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesCOSDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me and Bobby McGee on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-71 and snare through bars 72-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 29-43, and 5 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Me and Bobby McGee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 18, 27, 28, 45, 54 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-58 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-82 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-100 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Me and Bobby McGee?

80 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 Me and Bobby McGee hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me and Bobby McGee?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 18, 27, 28, 45, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED