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2122 · Geese

EXERCISE 8 OF 71
5-bar fill at bar 25
60 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AH
PART AT
PART AX
OUTRO
18 groovesAAXBGAHJ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2122 on drums

176 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, silence through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, ride through bars 18-22 and toms through bars 23-25, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 126-143, 145 and 147-148 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
2122 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AX, BG -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-59 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-67 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2122?

182 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 2122 hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 2122?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED