Whiskey In The Jar · Thin Lizzy

182 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-171 -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
WHISKEY IN THE JAR · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 3 sections: 174 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-171.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiskey In The Jar?

126 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?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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