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Two Kevins · Cigar

Two Kevins · Cigar
EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
9 groovesIGORX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Kevins on drums

165 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-127, toms through bars 128-134, hi-hat through bars 135-160 and kick and crashes through bars 161-163, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-38 and 40-46, and 15 more places -- 42.6% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Two Kevins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 20, 28, 39, 47 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-24 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 11 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-93 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Two Kevins?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Two Kevins hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Two Kevins?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 20, 28, 39, 47 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED