Two Princes · Spin Doctors

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

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 23-29, and 4 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
TWO PRINCES · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 33, 34, 35 and 21 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 51-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 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: 69 keep time and 27 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

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

Questions

What BPM is Two Princes?

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 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 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 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Two Princes?

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 33, 34, 35 and 21 more.

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