Mr Jones · Counting Crows

155 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 42-43, and 15 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 141 BPM
MR JONES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 80, 88, 96 and 11 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 7 sections: 129 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr Jones?

141 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 Mr Jones hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Mr Jones?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 80, 88, 96 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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