Anchor · Moth Gardens

130 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 8 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
ANCHOR · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 22, 28, 32 and 2 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 8 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-131.

PART G
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART U
PART G
PART W
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
14 groovesKGAHUAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anchor?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Anchor hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Anchor?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 22, 28, 32 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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