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Among The Living · Anthrax

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Groove T -- Outro 2
105 / 223 BARS COVERED
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PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART V
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQNJGD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Among The Living on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52, ride through bars 53-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-77, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-77, 87-102 and 121-136, and 2 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Among The Living -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 40, 52, 60 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-112 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-111 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-114 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Among The Living?

122 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 Among The Living hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 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 Among The Living?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 40, 52, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED