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Two Step STUDIO · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove D -- Part D
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PART S2
PART D
PART D
PART G
PART O
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
PART AB
OUTRO
14 groovesJGDABAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Step STUDIO on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-54, snare through bars 55-63, hi-hat through bars 64-96 and snare through bars 97-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-18, 29-38 and 109-113 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Two Step STUDIO -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 44, 53, 54, 74, 75, 76 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-32 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Two Step STUDIO?

120 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 Step STUDIO hard to play on drums?

57 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Step STUDIO?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 44, 53, 54, 74, 75, 76 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED