Song 2 · Blur

65 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-33 and 35-38, and 2 more places -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SONG 2 · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 56.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 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 Song 2 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Song 2?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 56.

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