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i2i · Magnolia Park

i2i · Magnolia Park
EXERCISE 19 OF 51
Groove J -- Part J
69 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCNUFJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play i2i on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-39, snare through bars 40-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
i2i -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 39, 43 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-68 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-52 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is i2i?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 i2i 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 i2i?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 39, 43 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED