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The Authority Song · Jimmy Eat World

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus 4
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PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJADT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Authority Song on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 39-43 and 53-56, and 2 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
The Authority Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 22, 44, 60, 63, 64 and 4 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-65 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Authority Song?

124 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 The Authority Song hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 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 The Authority Song?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 22, 44, 60, 63, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED