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EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 8-10)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 2 on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED