The Jerking Hand · Avery Hatchell

82 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 75-77 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE JERKING HAND · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 31 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 33 keep time and 37 are fills.

CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDXAEPAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Jerking Hand?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Jerking Hand hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Jerking Hand?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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