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The Joker · Steve Miller Band

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
2-bar fill at bar 58
75 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Joker on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 69.3% 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 |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Joker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 25, 26, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 11 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Joker?

83 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 Joker hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Joker?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 25, 26, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED