Two Tribes · Frankie Goes To Hollywood

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-28, and 10 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TWO TRIBES · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 66 and 94.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDBES1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Tribes?

95 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 Tribes hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Tribes?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 66 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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