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Whiskey In The Jar · Thin Lizzy

EXERCISE 8 OF 8
Play the whole song with the record
176 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 182 BARS LIT · IN THE COUNT-IN, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiskey In The Jar on drums

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

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-182.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED