Animal · Def Leppard

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 65-70 and 81, and 6 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ANIMAL · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 27, 28, 32, 56, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 13 sections: 72 keep time, 15 are fills, 24 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-23.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
PART R
PART V
PART G
PART L
7 groovesDLGRV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animal?

120 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 Animal hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Animal?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 27, 28, 32, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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