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The Ballad Of Jayne · L.A. Guns

The Ballad Of Jayne · L.A. Guns
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFAS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad Of Jayne on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-59, hi-hat through bars 60-64 and ride through bars 65-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 49-50 and 53-56, and 10 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 67, 86 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 62-125 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ballad Of Jayne?

120 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 Ballad Of Jayne hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Ballad Of Jayne?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 67, 86 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED