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Six 2 · Clay birds

Six 2 · Clay birds
EXERCISE 26 OF 41
14-bar fill at bar 97
124 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Six 2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, toms through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-20, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    111
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Six 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-27 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-111 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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