Six 2 · Clay birds

167 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 20 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SIX 2 · BAR 111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 24 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 30 are fills, 26 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-138.

PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
PART I
PART A
10 groovesJIMQA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Six 2?

130 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 Six 2 hard to play on drums?

51 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Six 2?

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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