Two Miles · Squarehead

114 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 169 BPM
TWO MILES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 57, 80, 81, 89, 95 and 2 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 110-111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 8 are fills, 19 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFES10S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Miles?

169 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 Miles hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Two Miles?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 57, 80, 81, 89, 95 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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