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Anesthesia (AI) · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 10 OF 35
Join Part A to Part D (bars 2-4)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMGDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anesthesia (AI) on drums

115 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 13 and 15, and 11 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Anesthesia (AI) -- 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 12, 22, 34, 54, 58, 62 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-13 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-23 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-105 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Anesthesia (AI)?

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 Anesthesia (AI) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Anesthesia (AI)?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 22, 34, 54, 58, 62 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED