Mr. Jones · Counting Crows

155 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30-32, and 14 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MR. JONES · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 80, 88, 92 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 8 sections: 124 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
5 groovesIDARCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Jones?

140 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?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.

How many fills are in Mr. Jones?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 80, 88, 92 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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