The Joust · Mad Caddies

136 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 44-46, and 4 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE JOUST · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 23 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 89 keep time, 29 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-66.

PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMJFBS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Joust?

144 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 Joust hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Joust?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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