An Anomaly · It Prevails

116 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-22 and 59-72 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
AN ANOMALY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 24, 28, 34 and 32 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 38 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-72.

PART B
PART F
PART J
PART S6
PART S
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAFJBS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Anomaly?

123 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 An Anomaly hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in An Anomaly?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 24, 28, 34 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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