The Chicken · Jaco Pastorius

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 39 and 54-60, and 6 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE CHICKEN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 25, 36, 37, 41, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 104 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-76.

PART F
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Chicken?

92 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 Chicken hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Chicken?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 25, 36, 37, 41, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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