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Anchorite · Phantom

Anchorite · Phantom
EXERCISE 11 OF 78
Join Part H to Part J (bars 15-17)
78 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
PART H
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AD
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTJADLH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anchorite on drums

173 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-46, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 26, and 11 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Anchorite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- J, AD -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anchorite?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Anchorite hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Anchorite?

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED