2 · Congenital Ligature

120 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-21, 32-39 and 88-95 -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
2 · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 51, 55 and 24 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 55-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 64-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART P
PART U
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFUPV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 2?

215 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 2 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 2?

5 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 31, 51, 55 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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