THE J mate · Flatline

98 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 1:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-15 and 27-32, and 3 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 215 BPM
THE J MATE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 16, 26, 60, 68 and 77.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 6 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-15.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S6
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCKUFS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE J mate?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is THE J mate hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 J mate?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 16, 26, 60, 68 and 77.

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