The Jogging Man · Alternative Competition 3

29 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:03 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
29
LENGTH
1:03
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 and 11-26 -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE JOGGING MAN · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

29 bars across 3 sections: 25 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-27.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Jogging Man?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Jogging Man hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

29 bars, about 1:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Jogging Man?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 29 BARS ANALYSED
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