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Song I like 2 · Zacharie Boivin

Song I like 2 · Zacharie Boivin
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EXERCISE 6 OF 50
Groove A
18 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 4
11 groovesS12AFUHB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song I like 2 on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, ride through bars 40-61, snare through bars 62-75 and silence through bars 76-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-54, 61-62 and 69-70, and 1 more place -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53                                               54
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
T1 |------------------------------------x-----x-----|------------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------x-----x-----|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----|x-----------------x-x-x-------x-----x-----------|
Song I like 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 23, 53, 55 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AG (a two-bar phrase), H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-15 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song I like 2?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I like 2 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Song I like 2?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 23, 53, 55 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED