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Theme For Jester · Antares

EXERCISE 25 OF 51
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 40-45)
65 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART D
PART Q
PART R
PART U
PART AA
PART AC
15 groovesERAAQU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theme For Jester on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and toms through bars 64-75, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 10 and 13, and 9 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Theme For Jester -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 11, 24, 32 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E, R -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Theme For Jester?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Jester hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 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 Jester?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 11, 24, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED