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Animal · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
80 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Animal on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, ride through bars 65-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 5-33 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-65 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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