Welcome To Jamrock · Damian Marley

134 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-43, 45-77 and 82-102, and 1 more place -- 87.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 153 BPM
WELCOME TO JAMROCK · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 7 sections: 125 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-77.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To Jamrock?

153 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 Welcome To Jamrock hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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