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2 · Tell Your Dog I Said Hi

EXERCISE 13 OF 75
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
60 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AX
OUTRO
20 groovesIBBFADAX+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2 on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 18-21 and 80-82, and 1 more place -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14                               15
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |------------o-------o-------o---|----o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------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

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 17, 28, 30, 47, 56 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB, AX -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 2 hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 17, 28, 30, 47, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED