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Two Weeks · All That Remains

EXERCISE 10 OF 50
Groove H
116 / 235 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART T
PART F
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLFGDS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Two Weeks on drums

235 bars at 227 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
227 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-20, hi-hat through bars 21-57, snare through bars 58-68, hi-hat through bars 69-105 and snare through bars 106-116, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 69-84 and 166-181 -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Two Weeks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 116, 233 and 234.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-73 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Two Weeks?

227 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Two Weeks hard to play on drums?

61 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Weeks?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 116, 233 and 234.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED