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Mr Jones · Counting Crows

EXERCISE 16 OF 44
Groove J
119 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr Jones on drums

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

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Mr Jones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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