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EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AJ
PART R
PART U
11 groovesORES1L+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anastasia on drums

304 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
304
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-71, ride through bars 72-89 and snare through bars 90-93, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 90-91, 208-221 and 224-230, and 10 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90               91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x---x---|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---x---|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
Anastasia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 55, 71, 89 and 16 more.

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 -- R, O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-223 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 124-151 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anastasia?

150 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 Anastasia hard to play on drums?

47 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?

304 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Anastasia?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 55, 71, 89 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 304 BARS ANALYSED