The Jazz Police · Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band

223 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-223 -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE JAZZ POLICE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 8.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 3 sections: 219 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-223.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesEACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Jazz Police?

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

Is The Jazz Police hard to play on drums?

52 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?

223 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Jazz Police?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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