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Anchor · Moth Gardens

Anchor · Moth Gardens
EXERCISE 19 OF 59
Groove N
64 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART U, PART G
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anchor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-18, toms through bars 19-36, snare through bars 37-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-58, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---x---|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-x-----x---|
Anchor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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