D2 · Max

171 bars at 265 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
265 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-70, 80-83 and 88-90, and 5 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 265 BPM
D2 · BARS 68-69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 40, 43, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 265 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 265 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 265 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 265 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 22 sections: 97 keep time, 15 are fills, 12 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-132.

PART K
PART X
PART H
PART A
PART BC
PART E
BREAK
14 groovesS22AREBCAX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is D2?

265 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is D2 hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 D2?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 40, 43, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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