Two Beers In · Free Throw

43 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 113 BPM, 2:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 21, and 2 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
TWO BEERS IN · BARS 9-10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 19, 24 and 26.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 6 sections: 15 keep time, 6 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesCS6BGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Beers In?

113 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Two Beers In hard to play on drums?

26 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Two Beers In?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 19, 24 and 26.

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