Two Princes 2 · Spin Doctors

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 46-53 and 66-67, and 4 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
TWO PRINCES 2 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 30 and 15 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-98.

CHORUS
PART G
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECLGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Princes 2?

104 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Princes 2 hard to play on drums?

62 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Two Princes 2?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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