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The Chicken · Jaco Pastorius

The Chicken · Jaco Pastorius
EXERCISE 21 OF 36
Run D1 · Part D (bars 39-45)
115 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chicken on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-133.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------xx-x--x-|
The Chicken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-44 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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