Two Tickets To Paradise · Eddie Money

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 11-25, and 10 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 43, 45, 49, 57 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 101 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-37.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesCMBLF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Tickets To Paradise?

130 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 Tickets To Paradise hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Tickets To Paradise?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 43, 45, 49, 57 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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