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Row Jimmy · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesBFALZN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Row Jimmy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
11:14
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-264, snare through bars 265-267, hi-hat through bars 268-280, snare through bars 281-283 and hi-hat through bars 284-305, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-72 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-224 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part Z -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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