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The Middle · Jimmy Eat World

EXERCISE 8 OF 28
Groove H
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0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Middle on drums

111 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-64, ride through bars 65-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 34-46 and 84-94 -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
The Middle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 63, 64, 72 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-106 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-65 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Middle?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Middle hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Middle?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 63, 64, 72 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED