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18 · Anarbor

18 · Anarbor
EXERCISE 6 OF 13
Groove I
50 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 18 on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 15-17 and 24-31, and 5 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 18?

98 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 18 hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED