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Whiskey In The Jar · Metallica

EXERCISE 12 OF 39
7-bar fill at bar 51 and 1 more
136 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCPIN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiskey In The Jar on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-163 and kick and crashes through bars 164-167.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 15 more places -- 63.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 51, 52, 53 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 2-160 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 136-148 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 142-167 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whiskey In The Jar?

133 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 Whiskey In The Jar hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whiskey In The Jar?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 51, 52, 53 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED