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Two Tickets To Paradise · Eddie Money

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT
INTRO
PART B
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Tickets To Paradise on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-65, ride through bars 66-81, hi-hat through bars 82-113, ride through bars 114-124 and snare through bars 125-126.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-14 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-116 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-110 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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