Terminator 2 Theme · Brad Fiedel

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-37, 57-71 and 74-88, and 1 more place -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TERMINATOR 2 THEME · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 43 and 5 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 9-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 89 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-106.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesJBS7AS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terminator 2 Theme?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Terminator 2 Theme hard to play on drums?

61 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 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 Terminator 2 Theme?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 43 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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