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Ancora · Harvest Arad

Ancora · Harvest Arad
EXERCISE 29 OF 35
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
72 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ancora on drums

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.

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
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25 and silence through bars 26-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-19 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-52 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-65 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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