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St. Jimmy · Green Day

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART G
PART A
PART F
PART G
PART F
PART G
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
8 groovesOFGAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play St. Jimmy on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, ride through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-58 and toms through bars 59-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 31-37 and 44, and 3 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x-----x--------x--x--------|
St. Jimmy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 42, 62, 65, 66, 68 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is St. Jimmy?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 St. Jimmy hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 St. Jimmy?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 42, 62, 65, 66, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED