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Mr. Jack · System of a Down

EXERCISE 4 OF 36
Groove N -- Part N
33 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART N
PART P
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFINBS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Jack on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-17, hi-hat through bars 18-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-56, silence through bars 57-65 and snare through bars 66-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20-24 and 34-37, and 2 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----x-----|
BD |x--------x--------------x--------x-----x--------|
Mr. Jack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 49, 55, 69, 77 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-29 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-50 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-73 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Jack?

76 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 Mr. Jack hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mr. Jack?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 49, 55, 69, 77 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED