Anarchy In The UK (live @ Southeast music hall) · Sex Pistols

250 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 34 and 36, and 13 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ANARCHY IN THE UK (LIVE @ SOUTHEAST MUSIC HALL) · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 33, 35, 37 and 15 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 19 sections: 113 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 101 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-179.

PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S14
PART T
BREAK
BREAK 2
11 groovesKS14S16FT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anarchy In The UK (live @ Southeast music hall)?

144 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 Anarchy In The UK (live @ Southeast music hall) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Anarchy In The UK (live @ Southeast music hall)?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 33, 35, 37 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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