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Two Princes · Spin Doctors

Two Princes · Spin Doctors
EXERCISE 21 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
102 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 111 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Princes on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-33 and toms through bars 34-35, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |-gg-xg-g-gg-xg-g|-gg-xg-g-gg-xg-g|
BD |x-x---xx-xx-----|x-x----x-x------|
Two Princes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-47 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-87 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED