Song 2 drum · blur

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 26-38 and 47-55, and 1 more place -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-55.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 2 drum?

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 drum hard to play on drums?

52 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?

65 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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 drum?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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