Ancora · Harvest Arad

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 8 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ANCORA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 52, 56, 64, 68 and 3 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-45.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADFS4OFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ancora?

80 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 Ancora 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?

85 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ancora?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 52, 56, 64, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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