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The Jerking Hand · Avery Hatchell

The Jerking Hand · Avery Hatchell
EXERCISE 35 OF 62
Join Part P to Part X (bars 35-37)
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0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART X
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Jerking Hand on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60 and snare through bars 61-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4                                                                5
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-x-|----x-------x-------x-------x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Jerking Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, X -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-29 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-37 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-53 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

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