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The Joust · Mad Caddies

EXERCISE 27 OF 57
Groove S -- Part S (a two-bar phrase)
101 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Joust on drums

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

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-57, toms through bars 58-67, hi-hat through bars 68-105, toms through bars 106-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-125, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
The Joust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-71 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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