Row Jimmy · Grateful Dead

310 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 11:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
11:14
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-15 and 17, and 23 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
ROW JIMMY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 96, 97, 98, 143, 144, 145 and 30 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 96-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 143-147 · LANDS ON BAR 148 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 158-159 · LANDS ON BAR 160 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 16 sections: 244 keep time, 36 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-66.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 4
8 groovesBFALZN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Row Jimmy?

104 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 Row Jimmy hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 11:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Row Jimmy?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 96, 97, 98, 143, 144, 145 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
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