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2 · emir
EXERCISE 4 OF 62
Groove A -- Part A
62 / 245 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
BREAK
PART I
PART A
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AK
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCIAAKP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2 on drums

245 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 9 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x-x-----------|
2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 34, 38, 86 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, AK -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break 3 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-39 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part W -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2?

204 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?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 2?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 34, 38, 86 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED