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Sloop John B · Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Sloop John B · Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove K -- Part K
55 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K, OUTRO
PART A
PART S2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIAKGS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sloop John B on drums

98 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-14, silence through bars 15-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-27 and snare through bars 28-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-60 and 78-96 -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Sloop John B -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 61, 77 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- I, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-66 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-81 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sloop John B?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sloop John B hard to play on drums?

47 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, 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 Sloop John B?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 61, 77 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED