ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play composição 2 on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 140 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 204
LENGTH: 5:50
DIFFICULTY: 95/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-33, hi-hat through bars 34-81, silence through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-100 and silence through bars 101-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 13 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34                       35
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------x-----|------------------------|
RD |--------------xx--------|------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----------|o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x---x-|--x---x-----------x-----|
T1 |------------------------|--------x-----------x-x-|
T2 |------------------------|---------x--------------|
FT |------------------------|----------x-------------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-xxx---x---|x---x---x-x-x-x-x-------|

composição 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 11, 17, 25 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 80-101 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is composição 2?

140 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 composição 2 hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 composição 2?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 11, 17, 25 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED