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Under Jolly Roger · Running Wild

Under Jolly Roger · Running Wild
EXERCISE 9 OF 33
Join Part D to Part F (bars 10-12)
55 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJFDBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under Jolly Roger on drums

95 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25 and toms through bars 26-27, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 34-37 and 48-50, and 4 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
Under Jolly Roger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 16, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under Jolly Roger?

170 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 Under Jolly Roger hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Under Jolly Roger?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 16, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED