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The Jazz Police · Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band

The Jazz Police · Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove E -- Outro 2
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OUTRO 2
3 groovesEACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Jazz Police on drums

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

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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