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Theme For Jce · Antares

EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Join Part A to Part J (bars 26-28)
40 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART J
PART C
PART A
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART AB
OUTRO
11 groovesS7AAGABJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theme For Jce on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-38, toms through bars 39-44, silence through bars 45-47, ride through bars 48-67 and kick and crashes through bars 68-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 80-81, and 1 more place -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-x-----x-----x-|x-x-----x-------|
Theme For Jce -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 31, 33, 35, 37, 49 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-45 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and Part AE -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Theme For Jce?

120 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 Theme For Jce hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Theme For Jce?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 31, 33, 35, 37, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED